Edward Bellamy Quotes

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.