Edward Carpenter Quotes

United Kingdom, Poet
August 29, 1844 – June, 28, 1929.

Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 – 28 June 1929) was an English socialist poet, philosopher, anthologist, and early activist for rights for homosexuals. A poet and writer, he was a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore, and a friend of Walt Whitman.He corresponded with many famous figures such as Annie Besant, Isadora Duncan, Havelock Ellis, Roger Fry, Mahatma Gandhi, Keir Hardie, J. K. Kinney, Jack London, George Merrill, E. D. Morel, William Morris, Edward R. Pease, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner.

Also known as Anthologist, Activist

The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.

Edward Carpenter
- Great
- Money
- Society
To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.

Edward Carpenter
- May
- Animal

Granting, I say that competition has hitherto been the universal law, the last word, of nature, still if only one man should stand up and say, 'It shall be so no more,' if he should say, 'It is not the last word of my nature, and my acts and life declare that it is not,' then that so-called law would be at an end.

Edward Carpenter
- Life
- Up
- Nature
Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.

Edward Carpenter
- Up
The law is in a sense the consolidated public opinion of society.

Edward Carpenter
- Society
- Law
- Opinion