William Graham Sumner
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Sumner was an American Episcopal priest turned social scientist who spent almost his whole career at Yale, where he held the country's first professorship in sociology.
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8 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 30 Oct 1840, Paterson, New Jersey (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 12 Apr 1910, Englewood Hospital, New Jersey, after a stroke (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Yale College, graduated 1863; the universities of Geneva and Göttingen; theology at Oxford from 1866 (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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20 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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In practice the State usually offers less wisdom and moral sense than the average citizen (opens korrents.com)
“Hence "the State," instead of offering resources of wisdom, right reason, and pure moral sense beyond what the average of us possess, generally offers much less of all those things.”
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Every effort to realize equality requires a sacrifice of liberty (opens korrents.com)
“We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.”
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Under the labels "the poor" and "the weak" the imprudent are made a duty of the prudent (opens korrents.com)
“Under the names of the poor and the weak, the negligent, shiftless, inefficient, silly, and imprudent are fastened upon the industrious and prudent as a responsibility and a duty.”
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In practice the State usually offers less wisdom and moral sense than the average citizen (opens korrents.com)