William Graham Sumner Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.

  William Graham Sumner

  Real, Class, Rights

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.32, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Art, Book

  William Graham Sumner, (2013). “Folkways - A Study Of The Sociological Importance Of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores And Morals”, p.251, Read Books Ltd

• It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.

  William Graham Sumner

  Children, Rights, Views

  The Forgotten Man's Almanac 14 October (1919)

• Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but the two are one, and the latter is accomplished when the former is done

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Self, Two

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.98, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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