William Graham Sumner Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• 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.

  William Graham Sumner

  Winning, Men, Burdens Of Life

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays”

• It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

  William Graham Sumner

  Race, Land, Earth

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.44, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.

  William Graham Sumner

  Thinking, Winning, Class

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.97, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.

  William Graham Sumner

  Earth

  "The Forgotten Man" (1883)

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