Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse: Man

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse was British sociologist. Explore interesting quotes on man.

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“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.

Personality

“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.

Men

“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.

Life

“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.

Law