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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
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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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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.
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In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.
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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.
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The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
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The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it.
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It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
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The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.
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All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.
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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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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
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One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
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If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.
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We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
William Graham Sumner
There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
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We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
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The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
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What we prepare for is what we shall get
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
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