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Top 20 Edward Bellamy Quotes (2025 Update)

Edward Bellamy Quote: “If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.”

1. “If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.”

— Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Quote: “Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.”

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

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Edward Bellamy Quote: “Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.”

3. “Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.”

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Edward Bellamy Quote: “The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.”

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

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Edward Bellamy Quote: “Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.”

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

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Edward Bellamy Quote: “No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.”

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

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Edward Bellamy Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Edward Bellamy Quote: “The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.”

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

— Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Quote: “The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.”

9. “The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.”

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Edward Bellamy Quote: “I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.”

10. “I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.”

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Edward Bellamy Quote: “And in heaven’s name, who are the public enemies?” exclaimed Dr. Leete. “Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?”

11. “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

Edward Bellamy Quote: “Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?”

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

— Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Quote: “They were not serving the public interest, but their immediate personal interest, and it was nothing to them what the ultimate effect of their course on the general prosperity might be, if but they increased their own hoard, for these goods were their own, and the more they sold and the more they got for them, the greater their gain. The more wasteful the people were, the more articles they did not want which they could be induced to buy, the better for these sellers.”

13. “They were not serving the public interest, but their immediate personal interest, and it was nothing to them what the ultimate effect of their course on the general prosperity might be, if but they increased their own hoard, for these goods were their own, and the more they sold and the more they got for them, the greater their gain. The more wasteful the people were, the more articles they did not want which they could be induced to buy, the better for these sellers.”

— Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Edward Bellamy Quote: “Moreover, the excessive individualism which then prevailed was inconsistent with much public spirit. What little wealth you had seems almost wholly to have been lavished in private luxury. Nowadays, on the contrary, there is no destination of the surplus wealth so popular as the adornment of the city, which all enjoy in equal degree.”

15. “Moreover, the excessive individualism which then prevailed was inconsistent with much public spirit. What little wealth you had seems almost wholly to have been lavished in private luxury. Nowadays, on the contrary, there is no destination of the surplus wealth so popular as the adornment of the city, which all enjoy in equal degree.”

— Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Quote: “When I saw that things which were to me so intolerable moved them not at all, that words that melted my heart to speak had only offended them with the speaker, I was at first stunned and then overcome with a desperate sickness and faintness at the heart.”

16. “When I saw that things which were to me so intolerable moved them not at all, that words that melted my heart to speak had only offended them with the speaker, I was at first stunned and then overcome with a desperate sickness and faintness at the heart.”

— Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Quote: “I had not been stranded upon the shore of this strange world to find myself alone and companionless.”

17. “I had not been stranded upon the shore of this strange world to find myself alone and companionless.”

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Edward Bellamy Quote: “The private umbrella is father’s favorite figure to illustrate the old way when everybody lived for himself and his family. There is a nineteenth century painting at the Art Gallery representing a crowd of people in the rain, each one holding his umbrella over himself and his wife, and giving his neighbors the drippings, which he claims must have been meant by the artist as a satire on his times.”

18. “The private umbrella is father’s favorite figure to illustrate the old way when everybody lived for himself and his family. There is a nineteenth century painting at the Art Gallery representing a crowd of people in the rain, each one holding his umbrella over himself and his wife, and giving his neighbors the drippings, which he claims must have been meant by the artist as a satire on his times.”

— Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Quote: “In my day,” I replied, “it was considered that the proper functions of government, strictly speaking, were limited to keeping the peace and defending the people against the public enemy, that is, to the military and police powers.” “And, in heaven’s name, who are the public enemies?” exclaimed Dr. Leete. “Are they France, England, Germany, or hunger, cold, and nakedness?”

19. “In my day,” I replied, “it was considered that the proper functions of government, strictly speaking, were limited to keeping the peace and defending the people against the public enemy, that is, to the military and police powers.” “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

Edward Bellamy Quote: “Who is capable of self-support?” he demanded. “There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to know family cooperation, each individual may possibly support himself, though even then for a part of his life only; but from the moment that men begin to live together, and constitute even the rudest sort of society, self-support becomes.”

20. “Who is capable of self-support?” he demanded. “There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to know family cooperation, each individual may possibly support himself, though even then for a part of his life only; but from the moment that men begin to live together, and constitute even the rudest sort of society, self-support becomes.”

— Edward Bellamy

Edward Bellamy Quote: “Wretched men, I was moved to cry, who, because they will not learn to be helpers of one another, are doomed to be beggars of one another from the least to the greatest!”

21. “Wretched men, I was moved to cry, who, because they will not learn to be helpers of one another, are doomed to be beggars of one another from the least to the greatest!”

— Edward Bellamy

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