6 Edward Bellamy Quotes on Society

Edward Bellamy quotes on society

8. Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. the idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.

10. Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

11. The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

12. When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

13. Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

16. Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture...have simply made us all members of one class.