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Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, né le 8 septembre 1864 à St Ives et mort à Alençon le 21 juin 1929, est un sociologue libéral britannique, un des théoriciens du libéralisme moderne.

Universitaire et journaliste, Hobhouse a été le premier professeur de sociologie à être recruté par une université britannique.

Sa conception de la sociologie s’inspire de sa connaissance des divers domaines tels que la philosophie, la psychologie, la biologie, l’anthropologie, l'histoire de la religion, l’éthique et le droit. Hobhouse est avec John Atkinson Hobson un des fondateurs du Nouveau libéralisme. Ce faisant, il a fourni la justification théorique à une certaine redistribution permise par les nouvelles pensions d’état en distinguant la propriété tenue « pour l’usage » de la propriété tenue « pour le pouvoir ». Son œuvre présente également une vision positive du libéralisme dans laquelle le but de la liberté est de permettre à des individus de se développer, et non seulement parce que cette liberté est bonne en soi. À cet égard, Hobhouse diffère de J. S. Mill qui considérait la non-intervention de l’état et de la société comme bonne en soi. Hobhouse, en revanche, indiquait que la coercition devrait être évitée non pas parce que nous n’avons aucun respect pour le bien-être des autres, mais parce que la coercition est inefficace à améliorer leur sort. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. septembre 1864 – 21. juin 1929
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Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse: Citations en anglais

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

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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.”

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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.”

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

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

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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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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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.”

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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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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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.”

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

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

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

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