Thomas Hodgskin: Quotes about laws

Thomas Hodgskin was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on law.
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“[I]t is nevertheless proper to make men aware that the price they pay for attempting to uphold the artificial right of property, is nothing less than the enormous sum of misery inflicted in the name of law and government.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 157

Making love , Law , Men

“The natural right of property far from being protected, is systematically violated, and both government and law seem to exist chiefly or solely, in order to protect and organize the most efficacious means of protecting the violation….”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 53

Law , Nature

“Those who make laws, appropriate wealth in order to secure power.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 49

Wealth , Making love , Law

“The law, as to preserve life is that of individuals, is a set of rules and practices … intended to appropriate to the law-makers the produce of those who cultivate the soil, prepare clothing, or distribute what is produced among the different classes, and among different communities.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 46

Clothes , Life , Law , Communication

“What is the law?—Who are the law makers?”

Thomas Hodgskin

The law is a great scheme of rules intended to preserve the power of government, secure the wealth of the landowner, the priest, and the capitalist, but never to secure his produce to the labourer.—The law-maker is never a labourer, and has no natural right to any wealth.—He takes no notice of the natural right of property.—Manifold miseries which result from his appropriating the produce of labour, and from the legal right of property being in opposition to the natural.

p. 44
The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832)

Law

“The power of making laws was long vested in those—and still is vested in their descendants—who followed no trade but war, and knew no handicraft but robbery and plunder.”

Thomas Hodgskin

Source: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 32

War , Making love , Law