Class struggle Quote by William Graham Sumner Download Open image ““The advantage of some is won by an equivalent loss of others.”” — William Graham Sumner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Class struggle Loss
“When you compare losses, someone else’s may seem greater or lesser than your own, but all losses are painful. If” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Copy Share Image
“We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing.” — John A. Daly Copy Share Image
“Only allow a loss if you are going to gain something much greater in the end.” — Kelly Skeete Copy Share Image
“Winning is better than losing, but everybody loses when the war isn't one worth fighting.” — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“We have a definition in our heads of what an advantage is—and the definition isn’t right. And what happens as a result? It means… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“—but the world is unfair, and sometimes we must use that unfairness to our advantage.” — T. Kingfisher Copy Share Image
“In any game, the game itself is the prize, no matter who wins, ultimately both lose the game.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes easier to overcome our defeats than it is to overcome our victories.” — C.L. Gammon 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
Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we… — Judi Bari Copy Share Image
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“As a battle cry against feudalism, the demand for democracy had a progressive character. As time went on, however, the metaphysics of natural law… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“We in the West are accustomed to thinking that humans are all basically the same underneath our different cultural clothing, that the concerns the… — Philip Cushman Copy Share Image
“The class struggle had a just motive, and Socialism at the beginning was in the right. What has happened is that instead of pursuing… — José Antonio Rivera Copy Share Image
“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The Latin American Left, the criollos, direct descendents of Spaniards, they don't want to accept that they are the whites of Latin America. They… — Bocafloja Copy Share Image
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“Have private property, capitalist exploitation and class rule ceased to exist? Or, have the propertied classes in a spell of patriotic fervour declared: in… — Rosa Luxemburg 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)
