I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people,… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism,… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share
When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to know family… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
