Edward Bellamy Quotes

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions ... business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

An American credit card ... is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Badly off as the men ... were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture ... have simply made us all members of one class.