Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse: Quotes about men

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

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“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.

“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.

“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.