Elbert Hubbard Quotes
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how.
Hubbard, Elbert. The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest, vol. 29, The Roycrofters, 1909, p. 16.
By 2015, the income inequality had gotten so bad that even billionaires were expressing alarm.
Chesterton preceded by almost half a century much of the intellectual dispute of the War on Poverty of the 1960’s where much of the middle and upper class tried to change a variety of behavior patterns and customs and values of the poor.
The cycle of poverty of 20th century America was not new. It has existed for centuries in most cultures and countries.
This important statement would not have been a noteworthy quote as so many have said it before, except for the fact that she was writing as a spokesperson of Nationalist China and she was the wife of the Nationalist Party leader, Chiang Kai-Shek. And the great failure of Chiang’s governance was the corruption and the excessive exploitation of the Chinese people by the wealthy. Madame Chaing, educated at Vassar College, knew just what to say to Americans and she mustered incredible support for the Nationalist cause most of which would never have been forthcoming if Americans knew the truth about the Nationalist Government. It was so corrupt, that the vast majority of the people aided the Communists in defeating Chaing, expelling him from the mainland, and relegating his government to Taiwan. Madame Chaing’s hypocrisy was legend. See {615696}.
For a later manifestation of the problem Franklin described see Anti-Renters in 1839.
Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
