The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.
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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
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Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
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