William Graham Sumner Quotes about Effort

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We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

Sacrifice, Effort, Liberty

William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.15, Ludwig von Mises Institute

Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and art. There is no process by which to reach an ideal. There are no tests by which to verify it. It is therefore impossible to frame a proposition about an ideal which can be proved or disproved. It follows that the use of ideals is to be strictly limited to proper cases, and that the attempt to use ideals in social discussion does not deserve serious consideration.

William Graham Sumner

Art, Effort, Doe

William Graham Sumner (2007). “Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

William Graham Sumner

Evil, Effort, Vices

"Sociology" (1881)

William Graham Sumner Quotes about Effort

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