Edward Bellamy Quotes

#1. Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.

A.E. Samaan

#2. And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

Edward Bellamy

#3. The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

Edward Bellamy

#4. The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.

Barbara Park

#5. Awful fondness you people have for knives. It's really not right.

Theresa Romain

#6. This mystery of use without consumption, of warmth without combustion, seems like magic, but was merely an ingenious application of the art now happily lost but carried to great perfection by your ancestors, of shifting the burden of one's support on the shoulders of others.

Edward Bellamy

#7. If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Edward Bellamy

#8. Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.

Edward Bellamy

#9. No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

Edward Bellamy

#10. Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am afraid that for a moment I was capable of wishing the same thing concerning the laboring class of America.

Edward Bellamy

#11. Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

Edward Bellamy

#12. The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

Edward Bellamy

#13. And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness.

Kristin Cashore

#14. Your system was liable to periodical convulsions ... business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

Edward Bellamy

#15. Badly off as the men ... were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

Edward Bellamy

#16. The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Edward Bellamy

#17. You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. I'm not worried if I'm using four different cheeses and it's high in fat. It's real food. That's what's more important.

Tom Colicchio

#18. I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

Edward Bellamy

#19. When I heard that 'Dracula' was being made into a series by NBC and Carnival, I couldn't resist. I knew they would do something interesting with it. A period drama with a supernatural twist seemed like a whole lot of fun.

Jessica De Gouw

#20. 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.

Edward Bellamy

#21. Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture ... have simply made us all members of one class.

Edward Bellamy

#22. Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

Edward Bellamy

#23. You either create or allow everything that happens to you.

Jack Canfield

#24. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

Oscar Wilde

#25. An American credit card ... is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

Edward Bellamy

#26. The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

Edward Bellamy

#27. Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

Edward Bellamy

#28. I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

Cathy Freeman

#29. French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.

Stephanie Perkins

#30. With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

Edward Bellamy