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… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The… — 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… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
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
