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The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
Manual labor meant association with a rude, coarse, and ignorant class of people. There is no such class now.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
The greater efficiency which education gives to all sorts of labor, except the rudest, makes up in a short period for the time lost in acquiring it.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
Badly off as the men, too, were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
The equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture which all persons now enjoy have simply made us all members of one class.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
Your system was liable to periodical convulsions...business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
Nothing can be in the long run or on a large scale sound economics which is not sound ethics.
Equality (1897)
No single thing is so important to every man as to have for neighbors intelligent, companionable persons. There is nothing, therefore, which the nation can do for him that will enhance so much his own happiness as to educate his neighbors.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
The main difference is that nowadays all persons equally have those opportunities of higher education which in your day only an infinitesimal portion of the population enjoyed.
The golden rule in its social application is as truly the secret of plenty as of peace.
Equality (1897)
You see economic science in your day was a science of things; in our day it is a science of human beings.
Equality (1897)
Power over others is necessarily demoralizing to the master and degrading to the subject.
Equality (1897)
If you own the things men must have, you own the men who must have them.
Equality (1897)
The profit system, by its necessary nature, operated to stop limit and cripple production at the point where it began to be efficient.
Equality (1897)
The old so-called ethics of property absolutely overlooked the whole ethical side of the subject--namely, its bearing on human relations.
Equality (1897)