William Graham Sumner Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

  William Graham Sumner

  Sacrifice, Effort, Liberty

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• 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.

  William Graham Sumner

  Hygiene, Organization, Indulge In

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.40, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.

  William Graham Sumner

  Art, Effort, Doe

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

• It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

  William Graham Sumner

  Evil, Effort, Vices

  "Sociology" (1881)

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