Granted Quote by William Graham Sumner Download Open image “One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.” — William Graham Sumner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Granted Money One thing Rich
What's good for the very rich might not be good for anybody but them. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy. — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight - the very rich are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue. — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Those fortunate to achieve great wealth should put it to work for the good of humanity. — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — 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 from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
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
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
It's strange that those we miss the most Are those we take for granted. — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where… — Lindsey Buckingham Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to… — Florence Kelley Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating… — Karen Thompson Walker 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 which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and…” quote by William Graham Sumner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9b4/william-graham-sumner-5011_can-do_the-yearning-after-equality-in-economic_454035.jpg)
