Samuel Butler Quotes
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler, 1835-1902, English Satirical Writer, Note Books
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He was expressing his cynicism about deficit spending leading affluence. However, those who advocate government counter-cyclical spending have never advocated constant deficit spending, but have urged deficit spending for specific periods and when the economy has turned around, stopping the spending and reducing the deficit.
In American History wars have been one of the major factors in breaking down cultural gender barriers and sexism. This was true even of the Civil War. At the time a married woman had no legal say in how family finances were utilized. All her property was the husband’s to manage as he saw fit. The war forced families to rethink and rearrange the roles of women. The reference to “Rothschild” was to the great financial family of men who were regarded as the best financiers in the world.
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic. He is best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903. Both have remained in print ever since. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted today.
