William Graham Sumner Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.

  William Graham Sumner

  Civilization, Giving, Envy

• It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

  William Graham Sumner

  Human Nature, Trouble, Reconstruction

• The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

  William Graham Sumner

  Envy, Lust, Selfishness

  William Graham Sumner (1919). “The Forgotten Man - Rediscovered After Fifty Years ...”

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