"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom." ― Herbert Spencer Topic(s): Freedom More From Herbert Spencer "Government is essentially immoral." "Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded." "Science is organized knowledge." More In Freedom "You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes."― Haruki Murakami "For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion."― Emile M. Cioran "The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them."― George W. Bush