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What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?
William Graham Sumner
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William Graham Sumner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1840
Born: October 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 12
Anthropologist
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Paterson
New Jersey
William Graham
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If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.
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Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
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If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.
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The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.
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It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the State lie entirely in the conditions or chances under which the pursuit of happiness is carried on.
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I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.
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Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.
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The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
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The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
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Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.
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It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
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Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
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Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
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The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
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Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.
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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
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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.
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