The Government of Man: An Introduction to Ethics and PoliticsG. Bell, 1920 - 318 Seiten |
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Seite 268 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is not your interest to make them happy.
Seite 278 - I cannot help concurring with their opinion, that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government. They think it rather the corruption and degeneracy, than the sound constitution of a republic. If I recollect rightly, Aristotle observes, that a democracy has many striking points of resemblance with a tyranny.
Seite 281 - The Church planted or gathered is a company or number of Christians or believers, which, by a willing covenant made with their God, are under the government of God and Christ, and keep his laws in one holy communion...
Seite 278 - The occupation of a hair-dresser, or of a working tallow-chandler, cannot be a matter of honour to any person — to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such descriptions of men ought not to suffer oppression from the state ; but the state suffers oppression, if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule.
Seite 256 - I there spoke of as proper to the business in hand, being that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man.
Seite 278 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule.
Seite 77 - But you and I say, that while to the just and holy all these things are the best of possessions, to the unjust they are all. including even health, the greatest of evils. For in truth, to have sight, and hearing, and the use of the senses, or to live at all without justice and virtue...
Seite 200 - Law is nothing else than an ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by him who has the care of the community.
Seite 76 - And he who would be dear to God must, as far as is possible, be like Him and such as He is.
Seite 252 - Fifthly, the city of London and other great towns of trade, having in admiration the prosperity of the Low Countries after they had revolted from their monarch, the King of Spain, were inclined to think that the like change of government here, would to them produce the like prosperity.