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What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)
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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
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Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
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The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
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William Graham Sumner
Born:
October 30, 1840
Died:
April 12, 1910
(aged 69)
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