18 ordspråk av William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner
 [I]t 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. |
| All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, and might shift the burden of life from their own shoulders upon those of ot |
| Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. |
| Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. |
| If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. |
| If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee. |
| If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines. |
| It is the supreme test of a system of government whether its machinery is adequate for repressing the selfish undertakings of cliques formed on special interests and saving the public from raids of plunderers. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves. |
| The forgotten man. . . . He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. |
| 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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