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1874–1942 United States

Wiles Robert Hunter (April 10, 1874 – May 14, 1942) was an American sociologist, progressive author, and golf course architect.

United States
Non-fiction authors
Sociologists

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The world cannot utterly ignore men who lay down their lives for any cause.

Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)

From the dawn of the world the chief duty of a parent has been to keep his family secure from want.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

The entire world would be broken into atoms—each an individualist standing alone.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

In science he could see nothing useful to mankind.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

If one's point of view is that of the anarchist, he is led inevitably to make his war upon individuals.

Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)

Floggings are of daily occurrence, and the fatalism common to all backward peoples is widespread in Russia.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

Wherever the chief economic problem is the unjust distribution of land, Christian communism seems to appeal to the masses.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

In the time of Jesus almost everybody worked in small shops or on the land and then sold or bartered their own products in the towns.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

He denounced the motives of those who engineer this progress.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

No one will fail to realize how low such a standard is.

Poverty (1912)

Profit, rent, and interest would be no more.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

It is especially easy in our time to forget others, largely because of the conditions in modern society.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

To live miserable we know not why, to have the dread of hunger, to work sore and yet gain nothing—this is the essence of poverty.

Poverty (1912)

Shall we admit that there is a duel between society and these souls deranged by the wrongs of society?

Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)

To continue in poverty for any long period means in the end the loss of the power of doing work, and to be unable to work means in the end pauperism.

Poverty (1912)

Serfs and slaves were always given at least enough to keep them physically well. But present-day society has ignored the wisdom of this fair provision.

Poverty (1912)

When principles will not work out in practice and the obstructions confronting men are too great, even the most faithful give way. And this, so far as we know, is what happened to every Tolstoyan.

Why We Fail as Christians (1919)

Without question, the causes, which produce on the one hand long hours and overemployment, result on the other hand in short periods of work, underemployment, or unemployment.

Poverty (1912)

Those who are in poverty may be able to get a bare sustenance but they are not able to obtain those necessaries which will permit them to maintain a state of physical efficiency.

Poverty (1912)

One can cut off the head of an individual, but it is not possible to cut off the head of an economic law.

Violence and the Labor Movement (1914)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Hunter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.