Quotes by Edward Bellamy

About Edward Bellamy:

Edward Bellamy was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of at least 165 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas and working to make them a practical reality. One of the last issues of "The Nationalist" noted that 'over 500' had been formed.
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If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Edward Bellamy

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

Edward Bellamy

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 p...

Edward Bellamy

As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in your day, to the ignorant and bestial; and in these days, when education and good manners are not the...

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 chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet bet...

Edward Bellamy

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

Edward Bellamy

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

Edward Bellamy

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

Author Bio

  • NameEdward Bellamy
  • DescriptionAmerican author and socialist
  • BornMarch 26, 1850
  • DiedMay 22, 1898
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksLooking Backward