Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

Edward Bellamy's Popular Quotes

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

- Edward Bellamy

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

- Edward Bellamy

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a …

- Edward Bellamy

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

- Edward Bellamy

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

- Edward Bellamy

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

- Edward Bellamy

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

- Edward Bellamy

People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevole…

- Edward Bellamy

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

- Edward Bellamy