A Quote by William Graham Sumner
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.
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The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt -
an image of the world in which men can again believe.
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.
It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.
I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks the cradlerules his world. . . . The son never forgets that he owes his life to his mother, not just the creation of it but the maintenance of it, and that he owes her a debt he cannot conceivably repay, but which she may call in at any time.
Some people feel that the world owes them a living.
The world owes an ecological debt to the African continent.
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.
There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.
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