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William Graham Sumner (1919). “The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays”. 54 Copy quote. A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest. William Graham Sumner. Men, Law ...
- “The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators ...
- “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.”
- “There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.” ― William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man.
- “The advantage of some is won by an equivalent loss of others.” ― William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man.
- A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
- The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
- Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
- A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
- William Graham Sumner, Albert Galloway Keller
- 1918
- “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.”
- “There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.” ― William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man.
- “The advantage of some is won by an equivalent loss of others.” ― William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man.
- “Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays—but he always pays—yes, above all, he pays.” ― William Graham Sumner, The Forgotten Man.
- 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.
- Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
- A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
- 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. William Graham Sumner.
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) was one of the founding father’s of American sociology. Although he trained as an Episcopalian clergyman, Sumner went on to teach at Yale University where he wrote his most influential works. His interests included money and tariff policy, critiques of socialism, social classes, and anti-imperialism.
“Sumner today: selected essays of William Graham Sumner, with comments by American leaders” 4 Copy quote If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration.
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