Elbert Green Hubbard Quotes

American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher

Elbert Green Hubbard (19 June 1856 – 7 May 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, businessman, anarchist and libertarian socialist philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement, founding the Roycroft enterprises. He and his wife Alice Moore Hubbard died in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

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Alternative Names: Elbert Hubbard • Ali Baba • Fra Elbertus

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Sunday, with its immunity from work, was devised for slaves who got out of all the work they could during the week.

Las inteligencias poco capaces se interesan en lo extraordinario; las inteligencias poderosas en las cosas ordinarias.

A friend is one who knows you and loves yu just the same.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Making men live in three worlds at once — past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.

I AM an Anarchist. All good men are Anarchists. All cultured, kindly men; all gentlemen; all just men are Anarchists. Jesus was an Anarchist. A Monarchist is one who believes a monarch should govern. A Plutocrat believes in the rule of the rich. A Democrat holds that the majority should dictate. An Aristocrat thinks only the wise should decide; while an Anarchist does not believe in government at all. Richard Croker is a Monarchist; Mark Hanna a Plutocrat; Cleveland a Democrat; Cabot Lodge an Aristocrat; William Penn, Henry D. Thoreau, Bronson Alcott and Walt Whitman were Anarchists. An Anarchist is one who minds his own business. An Anarchist does not believe in sending warships across wide oceans to kill brown men, and lay waste rice fields, and burn the homes of people who are fighting for liberty. An Anarchist does not drive women with babes at their breasts and other women with babes unborn, children and old men into the jungle to be devoured by beasts or fever or fear, or die of hunger, homeless, unhouseled and undone. Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

It's a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

If you would escape moral and physical assassination, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing — court obscurity, for only in oblivion does safety lie.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

If we ever damned it will not be because we have loved too much, but because we have loved too little.