William Sumner Quotes

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

science

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.

committees

Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of a man. Consequences are in the world of fact.

Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror.

torture

The four great motives which move men to social activity are hunger, love, vanity, and fear of superior powers.

It is the utmost folly to denounce capital. To do so is to undermine civilization, for capital is the first requisite of every social gain, educational, ecclesiastical, political, or other.

capitalism