William Graham Sumner
July 25th, 2009
The danger of minding people’s business is twofold. First, there is the danger that a man may leave his business unattended to; and, second, there is the danger of an impertinent interference with another’s affairs. The “friends of humanity” almost always run into both dangers.
-William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other [1883]