Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1705
AUTHOR:
Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
QUOTATION:
All socialism involves slavery…. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy another’s desires.
ATTRIBUTION:
HERBERT SPENCER, “The Coming Slavery,” The Contemporary Review, April 1884, p. 474. This essay was reprinted in chapter 2 of his book, Man vs. the State (1884).
