Voltairine de Cleyre on Human Nature
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Voltairine de Cleyre, catalogued under Human Nature, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Voltairine de Cleyre, entry #80672: "Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of…"
Attributed to Voltairine de Cleyre, entry #69502: "As to the essence of human nature, what our national experience has made plain is this, that to remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature. That has happe…"
2 Quotes by Voltairine de Cleyre on Human Nature
"Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society."
"As to the essence of human nature, what our national experience has made plain is this, that to remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature. That has happened which was prophesied: we have gone down hill from the Revolution until now; we are absorbed in "mere money-getting."