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