Thomas Hodgskin citations

Thomas Hodgskin est un écrivain socialiste de l'économie politique anglais, né le 12 décembre 1787 à Chatham dans le Kent et mort le 21 août 1869 à Feltham dans le Middlesex. C'est un critique du capitalisme, « anarchiste du marché » et défenseur du libre-échange et des premiers syndicats. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. décembre 1787 – 21. août 1869
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Thomas Hodgskin: Citations en anglais

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

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

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

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)

“Our leaders invent nothing but new taxes, and conquer nothing but the pockets of their subjects.”

Source: The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832), p. 14

“Governments have meddled incessantly with money, which in our time has been the fruitful parent of intricate discussions and painful changes.”

Source: Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827), p. 179

“Domestic slavery, combined with systems of foreign conquest and usurpation, ruined the empires of antiquity.”

Source: Popular Political Economy: Four lectures delivered at the London Mechanics Institution (1827), p. 30

“The evils of society cannot be remedied by acts of parliament.”

Source: Travels in the North of Germany (1820), p. 98, Vol. 2

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