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What Social Classes Owe to Each Other QUOTES

1 " We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

2 " Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule. "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

3 " The lobby is the army of the plutocracy. "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

4 " History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

5 " It must put down schemes for making "the rich" pay for whatever "the poor" want, just as it tramples on the old theories that only the rich are fit to regulate society. One "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

6 " the friends of humanity once more appear, in their zeal to help somebody, to be trampling on those who are trying to help themselves. "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

7 " If the society does not keep up its power, if it lowers its organization or wastes its capital, it falls back toward the natural state of barbarism from which it rose, and in so doing it must sacrifice thousands of its weakest members. Hence "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

8 " The social doctors enjoy the satisfaction of feeling themselves to be more moral or more enlightened than their fellow-men. They "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

9 " An examination of the work of the social doctors, however, shows that they are only more ignorant and more presumptuous than other people. We "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

10 " But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past. These products of social quackery are now buttressed by habit, fashion, prejudice, platitudinarian thinking, and new quackery in political economy and social science. It "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

11 " It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. It would be unjust to take that profit away from him, or "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

12 " The laborer likewise gains by carrying on his labor in a strong, highly civilized, and well-governed State far more than he could gain with equal industry on the frontier or in the midst of anarchy. He "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

13 " are those who have neglected their duties, and consequently have failed to get their rights. The "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

14 " distribution of rewards and punishments between those who have done their duty and those who have not. "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

15 " It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. We "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

16 " A society based on contract, therefore, gives the utmost room and chance for individual development, and for all the self-reliance and dignity of a free man. That "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

17 " Jobbery is the vice of plutocracy, and "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

18 " The penalty of ceasing an aggressive behavior toward the hardships of life on the part of mankind is, that we go backward. We "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

19 " Among respectable people a man who took upon himself the cares and expenses of a family before he had secured a regular trade or profession, or had accumulated some capital, and who allowed his wife to lose caste, and his children to be dirty, ragged, and neglected, would be severely blamed by the public opinion of the community. The "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

20 " Taking men as they have been and are, they are subjects of passion, emotion, and instinct. Only "

― William Graham Sumner , What Social Classes Owe to Each Other