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Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse was a British liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating in his famous book Liberalism , occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism. He worked both as an academic and a journalist, and played a key role in the establishment of sociology as an academic discipline; in 1907 he shared, with Edward Westermarck, the distinction of being the first professor of sociology to be appointed in the United Kingdom, at the University of London. He was also the founder and first editor of The Sociological Review. His sister was Emily Hobhouse, the British welfare activist. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. September 1864 – 21. June 1929
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Famous Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Quotes

“If the child was helpless, was the grown up person, man or woman, in a much better position?”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter IV, "Laissez - Faire", p. 46.

“The fancied clearness of Utopian vision is illusory, because its objects are artificial ideas and not living facts.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VIII, Economic Liberalism, p. 89.

“True consent is free consent, and full freedom of consent implies equality on the part of both parties to bargain.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter IV, "Laissez - Faire", p. 50.

“The first condition of universal freedom, that is to say, is a measure of universal restraint. Without such restraint some men may be free but others will be unfree.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter II, The Elements of Liberalism, p. 17.

“What we possess has its intrinsic value, but how we came to possess it is also an important question.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter IX, The Future Of Liberalism, p. 117.

“Compulsion may be necessary for the purposes of external order, but it adds nothing to the inward life that is the true being of a man.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter V, Gladstone And Mill, p. 60.

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Quotes about men

“Some men are much better and wiser than others, but experience seems to show that hardly any man is so much better than or wiser than others that he can permanently stand the test of irresponsible power over them.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter IX, The Future Of Liberalism, p. 118.

“At all times men have lived in societies, and ties of kinship and of simple neighbourhood underlie every form of social organization.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter I, Before Liberalism, p. 9.

“To be effective men must act together, and to act together they must have a common understanding and a common object.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter III, The Movement Of Theory, p. 30.

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Quotes about ideas and thoughts

“Great changes are not caused by ideas alone; but they are not effected without ideas.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter III, The Movement Of Theory, p. 30.

“Does scope for individual development, for example, consort with idea of equality?”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VII, The State And The Individual, p. 74 .

“The foundation of liberty is the idea of growth.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VI, The Heart Of Liberalism, p. 66.

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Quotes

“To move towards harmony is the persistent impulse of the rational being, even if the goal lies always beyond the reach of accomplished effort.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VI, The Heart Of Liberalism, p. 69.

“He is a citizen of the world in that he represents his nation, which is a member of the community of the world.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter V, Gladstone And Mill, p. 56 .

“We need less of the fanatics of sectarianism and more of the unifying mind.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter IX, The Future Of Liberalism, p. 126-127.

“If there is one law for the Government and another for it's subjects, one for noble and another for commoner, one for rich and another for poor, the law does not guarantee liberty for all.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter II, The Elements of Liberalism, p. 17.

“Government must keep the ring, and leave it for individuals to play the game.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter III, The Movement Of Theory, p. 34 .

“In modern industry there is very little that the individual can do by his unaided efforts.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VIII, Economic Liberalism, p. 99.

“The more a class is brought low, the greater its difficulty in rising again without assistance. For purposes of legislation the State has been exceedingly slow to accept this view.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter IV, "Laissez - Faire", p. 47.

“The modern state is the distinctive product of a unique civilization. But it is a product which is still in the making, and a part of the process is a struggle between old and new principles of social order.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter I, Before Liberalism, p. 9.

“Other great sources of wealth are found in financial and speculative operations, often of distinctly anti-social tendency and possible only through the defective organization of our economy.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VIII, Economic Liberalism, p. 97.

“The Liberal does not meet opinions which he conceives to be false with toleration, as though they did not matter. He meets them with justice, and exacts for them a fair hearing as though they mattered just as much as his own.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter VI, The Heart Of Liberalism, p. 63.

“Both logically and historically the first point of attack is arbitrary government, and the first liberty to be secured is the right to be dealt with in accordance with law. A man who has no legal rights against another, but stands entirely at his disposal, to be treated according to his caprice, is a slave to that other.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter II, The Elements of Liberalism, p. 16.

“The more the individual receives free scope for the play of his faculties, the more rapidly will society as a whole advance.”

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter III, The Movement Of Theory, p. 34.

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