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William Graham Sumner
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"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."
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William Graham Sumner
Topic(s):
Society
"Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society."
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William Graham Sumner
Topic(s):
Society
"It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land."
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William Graham Sumner
Topic(s):
Jealousy
"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."
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William Graham Sumner
Topic(s):
Fitness
"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."
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William Graham Sumner
Topic(s):
Dreams
"The forgotten man… He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."
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William Graham Sumner
Topic(s):
Business
"The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."
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William Graham Sumner
Topic(s):
Communication
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