Edward Bellamy

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred…

— Edward Bellamy

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a…

— Edward Bellamy

When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that…

— Edward Bellamy

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

— Edward Bellamy

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

— Edward Bellamy

Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a…

— Edward Bellamy

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

— Edward Bellamy

The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own…

— Edward Bellamy

An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

— Edward Bellamy

“There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to…

— Edward Bellamy

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

— Edward Bellamy

People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which…

— Edward Bellamy

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

— Edward Bellamy

Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

— Edward Bellamy

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

— Edward Bellamy

[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited…

— Edward Bellamy

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable…

— Edward Bellamy

“This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without combustion, seems like magic, but was merely an ingenious application of the art…

— Edward Bellamy

“And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?”

— Edward Bellamy

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions, business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the…

— Edward Bellamy

With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long…

— Edward Bellamy

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

— Edward Bellamy

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

— Edward Bellamy

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

— Edward Bellamy

“The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.”

— Edward Bellamy