Soft Power

The motive of personal gain is one of the lowest motives of human conduct; but your so-called law of competition has nothing else to appeal to, and the race is dwarfed and demoralised by its operation.  I hold, on the contrary, that the individual is capable of still greater exertion from the nobler motive of benefiting the race, and that we must construct a society in which selfishness is openly discredited if we would secure the highest development of the powers of the individual, and of the faculties of the human mind.

The Gospel of Wealth (A reply to Mr. Andrew Carnegie), The Universal Review, 1890, 353.

In 1892, Andrew Carnegie was asked to resign his membership of the National Liberal Club. He had taken a leading role in the Homestead strike, an industrial lockout in Pennsylvania.