Sumner Quotes

When I was four, I think I just wanted to make noise. When I was about 10 years old I was given five CDs for my birthday: Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon, the Sex Pistols, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, and I can't remember the fifth one, but really different kinds of music. That's when I started to grasp it and enjoy it, listening to it. Then I started being in bands at school. ~ Eliot Paulina Sumner

The efficiency of most workers is beyond the control of the management and depends more than has been supposed upon the willingness of men to do their best. ~ Sumner Slichter

Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man. ~ Samuel S. Sumner

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for. ~ Eliot Paulina Sumner

When there's no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside of me, It mixed with my environment and life experiences to make something tangible,something that expressed me. ~ Bernard Sumner

I feel like a lot of people are very career-driven and there's pressure to be successful. You put off relationships. You put off those intimate relationships because you're just work-driven. It's a very sweet term, undateable. ~ Mickey Sumner

Time is a curious thing. When you have it before you, it's something you take for granted and it moves slowly. Then, as you get older, it accelerates. When I look back, it seems such a long distance travelled, so long ago, so dream-like. ~ Bernard Sumner

The Forgotten Man ... works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays-yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office; his name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies. He keeps production going on ... He does not frequent the grocery or talk politics at the tavern. Consequently, he is forgotten ... All the burdens fall on him, or on her, for it is time to remember that the Forgotten Man is not seldom a woman. ~ William Graham Sumner

Charles Sumner; A Smacking breeze has sprung up, and we shall part this company soon; and then for the Atlantic! Farewell then, my friends, my pursuits, my home, my country! Each bellying wave on its rough crest carries me away. The rocking vessel impedes my pen. And now, as my head begins slightly to reel, my imagination entertains the glorious prospects before me ... ~ David McCullough

The more you stared up crap the more it's going to smell (/) ~ Mary Sumner

Of the six men who have done most to make America the wonder and the joy she is to all of us, not one could be the citizen of a government so constituted; for Washington and Franklin and Jefferson, certainly the three mightiest leaders in our early history, were heretics in their day, Deists, as men called them; and Garrison and Lincoln and Sumner, certainly the three mightiest in these later times, would all be disfranchised by the proposed amendment. Lincoln could not have taken the oath of office had such a clause been in the Constitution. ~ John Chadwick

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable. ~ William Graham Sumner

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. ~ William Graham Sumner

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others. ~ William Graham Sumner

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come. ~ Charles Sumner

Irwin F. Gellman's Secret Affairs: FDR, Cordell Hull, and Sumner Welles, ~ Larry Kramer

Abel was also the first of the human family to experience physical death- and it was through murder! He suffered death because of another's sin, the transgression of his elder brother Cain, who, in a fit of rage, killed him in cold blood. At the same time, thanks to faith in the sin-offering, he overcame death. The first man to descend into the Valley of the Shadow of Death was the first one to triumphantly march straight through it into the Paradise of Glory. He stepped from the excruciating pain of mortal manslaughter's hate into the exquisite land of eternal delights prepared by the Father's love! He led the way, like a pioneer, for all subsequent generations of men and women of faith throughout human history. ~ Robert L. Sumner

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune? ~ William Graham Sumner

It is not what happens to you or for you that makes you grateful. It's how you respond to what is happening, that shows your belief about gratitude. ~ Sumner Davenport

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one. ~ Henry James Sumner Maine

If you move to the West Coast, I will make a gun out of this," she said, drunkenly brandishing a tiny straw before searching the rest of the cluttered table, "and these peanuts and this glass and shoot you in the dick, Will."
I winced at the visual. "Wow-" I began.
"In the dick, Will. ~ Christina Lauren

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. ~ Charles Sumner

Sometimes divorce is better than marriage. ~ Sumner Redstone

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. ~ Sumner Redstone

Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004. ~ Sumner Redstone

Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule. ~ William Graham Sumner

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money ... But we are not going to buy Yahoo! ~ Sumner Redstone

The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization. ~ William Graham Sumner

I am very pleased with the progress of the new CBS Corporation. The Company's rapid pace of change and innovative approach to emerging business opportunities can be seen in the many strategic announcements we have made over these past few months. The more focused and more nimble organization we sought to create has become a reality and that aggressive spirit of excellence and innovation will continue to benefit shareholders for many years to come. ~ Sumner Redstone

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing. ~ William Graham Sumner

I take every day as it comes and if I have to be somewhere, I'll be there. ~ Eliot Paulina Sumner

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. ~ William Graham Sumner

Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way. ~ William Graham Sumner

I turned on my heel and left the building. With only £4.76 in the bank, and my subscription to 'Men Only' due, things were looking bleak. Seeing that Keith Moore had apparently purloined Sting's money, though at this time, he had not been yet convicted of the offence, it seemed to me that he was a better bet for a loan than Sting was. ~ James Berryman

The great stream of time and earthly things will sweep on just the same in spite of us. ~ William Sumner

It's Christmas at Ground Zero The button has been pressed The radio Just let us know That this is not a test Everywhere the atom bombs are droppin It's the end of all humanity No more time for last minute shoppin' It's time to face your final destiny. ~ Charles Sumner

In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them. ~ William Graham Sumner

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ~ Henry James Sumner Maine

In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life ... The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind. ~ William Graham Sumner

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

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable. ~ William Graham Sumner

What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination. ~ Julius Sumner Miller

We need to listen to consumers' needs. ~ Sumner Redstone

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics. ~ Julius Sumner Miller

Too old for what?" I demanded. "Fun?" I ~ Janet Sumner Johnson

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable? ~ Charles Sumner

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. ~ William Graham Sumner

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. ~ William Graham Sumner

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property. ~ Charles Sumner

The information superhighway is a dirt road that won't be paved over until 2025. ~ Sumner Redstone

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house. ~ William Graham Sumner

I listen to my daughter. I listen to Paula, but I make the decisions. The decision to say goodbye to Cruise was mine. ~ Sumner Redstone

In this country, where workmen move about frequently and with facility, the unions suffer in their harmony and stability. It ~ William Graham Sumner

I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved. ~ Mickey Sumner

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do. ~ Mickey Sumner

Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophy. ~ Sumner Redstone

The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators ... They are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence, uninfluenced by the emphasis or confidence with which assertions are made on one side or the other. They can resist appeals to their dearest prejudices and all kinds of cajolery. Education in the critical faculty is the only education of which it can be truly said that it makes good citizens. ~ William Graham Sumner

[James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any kind of government assistance, and liberal intellectuals. His intellectual lineage went back to such bitter establishment opponents of Populism as the social Darwinists Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner. The battle between "the oppressed and their oppressors," as one People's Party publication had termed it in 1892, was redefined in his milieu: "the working masses who produce" became businessmen, and "the favored parasites who prey and fatten on the toil of others" became those who gained anything from government without paying proportional income taxes. "The mighty struggle" became one to hamstring the people who refused to stop making claims on government. ~ Nancy MacLean

If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence, the productivity and the wages of labor are less than they otherwise would be. ~ Sumner Slichter

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. ~ William Graham Sumner

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none. ~ William Graham Sumner

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. ~ William Graham Sumner

The dogmatic radicals who assail "on principle" the inherited social notions and distinctions are not serving civilization. Society ~ William Graham Sumner

The invectives against capital in the hands of those who have it are double-faced, and when turned about are nothing but demands for capital in the hands of those who have it not, in order that they may do with it just what those who have it now are doing with it. ~ William Graham Sumner

A monarchical or aristocratic system is not immoral, if the rights and duties of persons and classes are in equilibrium, although the rights and duties of different persons and classes are unequal. An ~ William Graham Sumner

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee. ~ William Graham Sumner

Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man. ~ William Graham Sumner

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property. ~ William Graham Sumner

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue. ~ William Graham Sumner

I had to pinch myself a couple of times that I was actually on stage at the Atlantic with Carol Kane. ~ Mickey Sumner

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. ~ William Graham Sumner

It's so rare that you see a movie that you are genuinely moved by on a real level, and you relate to it, and you come out feeling uplifted. ~ Mickey Sumner

What is needed is competence first and enthusiasm first. There is nothing second! Although each or one of these alone is a good start, one without the other is impotent. But if I had a choice I would have enthusiasm first. ~ Julius Sumner Miller

Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For, fortunately, the matter stands so that the duty of making the best of one's self individually is not a separate thing from the duty of filling one's place in society, but the two are one, and the latter is accomplished when the former is done ~ William Graham Sumner

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. ~ William Graham Sumner

I find Spanish really difficult. They speak so quickly, whereas in German it's very clear what they're saying. It's easier to repeat. ~ Eliot Paulina Sumner

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. ~ William Graham Sumner

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world. ~ William Graham Sumner

Miss Sumner, are you all right?" Hamilton asked, pulling her from her thoughts. "Perfectly fine." Hamilton sent a pointed look to the crushed dinner roll in Eliza's hand. "Oh," Eliza said, relaxing her fingers and dropping the roll to her plate before she realized Mrs. Amherst was speaking to her once again. ~ Jen Turano

Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain. ~ William Graham Sumner

Yes. Kissing. Overrated."
"I could change your mind," Zach said, surprising the hell out of them both. Why would he take something as simple as this banter as a challenge? "I don't know that I want to, but I feel right sure I could."
"How arrogant. How typically male."
"I suppose." He shrugged and reached for the wine bottle. "More?"
She nodded, frowning now. "How do you know you could change my mind? It's been a long time since you ... well - "
"Over two years." The pain was there, an ache in his chest he imagined he would feel every time he thought of Hannah.
And he thought of her every day. Dreamed of her about as often. But lately, maybe only in the past week, he'd begun to realize that his life had not ended with his wife's.
He either had to die or start living again. ~ Tracy Sumner

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ... ~ William Graham Sumner

Taking men as they have been and are, they are subjects of passion, emotion, and instinct. Only ~ William Graham Sumner

There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies. ~ Charles Sumner

The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances. ~ William Graham Sumner

People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie? ~ Andy Kindler

Murdoch paid too much for the Wall Street Journal even when he didn't have any competition. ~ Sumner Redstone

The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. ~ William Graham Sumner

Going seventy miles an hour but not going anywhere - not enough imagination to want to go anywhere! Getting their music by turning a dial. Getting their phrases from the comic strips instead of from Shakespeare and the Bible and Veblen and Old Bill Sumner. Pap-fed flabs! ~ Sinclair Lewis

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. ~ William Graham Sumner

I love Viacom. I love CBS. And so I don't want to die. I have a will to live. The same will to win that I've always had. And - I'm gonna fight death as long as I can. I like it here. I don't want to go anywhere else. ~ Sumner Redstone

Living your life through Gratitude, is not one of comparing how you are better than someone else; or Gratitude only for what you own or obtain or achieve. Living your life through Gratitude, is seeing that the world would be missing something very valuable if you were not in it. ~ Sumner Davenport

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing. ~ Charles Sumner

Although I now call him 'Sting' to his face, I can still distinguish 'Sting' from 'Gordon Sumner'. ~ James Berryman

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. ~ Henry James Sumner Maine

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ~ Henry James Sumner Maine

I think the whole concept of dating is deeply flawed, so maybe it's a good thing to be undateable. There's a difference between being unlovable and undateable. ~ Mickey Sumner

The psychotic clown I sent for his birthday will feel like a feather falling on a pillow atop a cloud. The laxative in my lunch? Child's play. If you think it was bad when I sent that fake resume for his open assistant position and the stripper came for the interview? No. We're talking Defcon Five, Vietcong-level mind fucking, do you hear me, Chloe? ~ Christina Lauren

What is even happening here?" Will said, looking to each of us and the back to wherever the cougars had wandered off to.
"Am I drunk? Hanna, they just pinched my ass and this one"- he motioned to George- "wants to claim me for his own. A little help?"
Hanna took a drink off her frilly drink, complete with big pink umbrella and some sort of neon glow stick. "I don't know, you seem to be doing pretty well on your own there," she said, then took another long pull of her straw. ~ Christina Lauren

The wise man sees the fool & laughs & the fool never knows why ~ Jovie Sumner