Boon Quote by William Graham Sumner Download Open image “It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.” — William Graham Sumner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belongs Race Boon Earth Earth Belongs Land Land Boon Nature Race Racism Raw Land Said
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land...… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The land is where our roots are. The children must be taught to feel and live in harmony with the Earth. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think that this… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not… — Crazy Horse Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Can anyone imagine that the masterfulness, the overbearing disposition, the greed of gain, and the ruthlessness in methods, which are the faults of the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died. — Sappho Copy Share Image
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case… — Peter Forsyth Copy Share Image
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they… — John Cassavetes Copy Share Image
Whate'er my doom; It cannot be unhappy: God hath given me The boon of resignation. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image