William Graham Sumner Quotes
Top 38 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ...
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
In this country, where workmen move about frequently and with facility, the unions suffer in their harmony and stability. It
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays - but he always pays - yes, above all, he pays.
The forgotten man ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.