By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
The enslaving of the other is also the enslaving of the self.
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?