What Social Classes Owe to Each Other Quotes

“The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“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

“We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. They are paid in proportion to the supply and demand of them.”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Every improvement in education, science, art, or government expands the chances of man on earth. Such expansion is no guarantee of equality. On”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“The men who have not done their duty in this world never can be equal to those who have done their duty more or less well. If”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Now, the aid which helps a man to help himself is not in the least akin to the aid which is given in charity. If”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Rights do not pertain to results, but only to chances. They”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Social improvement is not to be won by direct effort. It is secondary, and results from physical or economic improvements. That”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“The function of science is to investigate truth. Science is colorless and impersonal. It”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“There is no injunction, no "ought" in political economy at all. It”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“there are yet mixed in our institutions mediaeval theories of protection, regulation, and authority, and”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“It is the Forgotten Man who is threatened by every extension of the paternal theory of government. It”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Now, the plan of plundering each other produces nothing. It only wastes. All”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Jobbery is the vice of plutocracy, and”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“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

“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

“Something for nothing is not to be found on earth.”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“A vast amount of "social reform" consists in just this operation. The consequence is that those who have gone astray, being relieved from Nature's fierce discipline, go on to worse, and that there is a constantly heavier burden for the others to bear. Who”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Hence it is not upon the masters nor upon the public that trades-unions exert the pressure by which they raise wages; it is upon other persons of the labor class who want to get into the trades, but, not being able to do so, are pushed down into the unskilled labor class. These”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“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

“All schemes for patronizing "the working classes" savor of condescension. They”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Every bit of capital, therefore, which is given to a shiftless and inefficient member of society, who makes no return for it, is diverted from a reproductive use; but”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Capital, however, as we have seen, is the force by which civilization is maintained and carried on. The”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“the State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man.”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Our disposition toward the ills which our fellow-man inflicts on us through malice or meddling is quite different from our disposition toward the ills which are inherent in the conditions of human life.”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“Under all this lies the familiar logical fallacy, never expressed, but really the point of the whole, that we shall get perfect happiness if we put ourselves in the hands of the world-reformer. We”
― William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

“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