There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
William Graham SumnerWhat is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
William Graham SumnerAll history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.
William Graham SumnerThe type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.
William Graham Sumner