Orestes A. Brownson Quotes

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The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is the inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

Orestes A. Brownson
If you would make a man happy, study not to augment his goods; but to diminish his wants. One of the greatest services Christianity has rendered the world has been its consecration of poverty, and its elevation of labor to the dignity of a moral duty.

Orestes A. Brownson
Democracy as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that, if you would save the people, you must often oppose them.

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What we object to is the division of society into two classes, of which one class owns the capital, and the other performs the labor.

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The immortality of the soul is assented to rather than believed, believed rather than lived.

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The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make open attacks on religion, although we might the clergy and bring them into contempt where we could: but to establish a system of state - we said national - schools, from which all religion was to be excluded.

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Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

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If there must always be a laboring population distinct from proprietors and employers, we regard the slave system as decidedly preferable to the system at wages.

Orestes A. Brownson