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Quotes from Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society — George Fitzhugh

1806–1881 United States

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A man loves his children because they are weak, helpless and dependent; he loves his wife for similar reasons.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Liberty and equality are not only destructive to the morals, but to the happiness of society.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

What a glorious thing to man is slavery, when want, misfortune, old age, debility and sickness overtake him.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Free trade or political economy is the science of free society, and socialism is the science of slavery.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Slavery relieves our slaves of these cares altogether, and slavery is a form, and the very best form, of socialism.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Naturally, Southerners, like slaveholders, are liberal and public spirited.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

The slaves are all well fed, well clad, have plenty of fuel, and are happy. They have no dread of the future—no fear of want.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Slavery protects the infants, the aged and the sick; nay, takes far better care of them of the healthy, the middle-aged and the strong.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

The great object of government is to restrict, control and punish man ‘in the pursuit of happiness.’

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

All concur that free society is a failure. We slaveholders say you must recur to domestic slavery, the oldest, the best and most common form of Socialism.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

The bestowing upon men equality of rights, is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequalities of condition.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

The failure of laissez-faire, of political economy, is admitted now by its last and lingering votary. Free society stands condemned by the unanimous testimony of all its enlightened members.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Liberty is an evil which government is intended to correct. This is the sole object of government.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

In the last place, the negro race is inferior to the white race, and living in their midst, they would be far outstripped or outwitted in the chase of free competition.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Our only quarrel with Socialism is, that it will not honestly admit that it owes its recent revival to the failure of universal liberty, and is seeking to bring about slavery again in some form.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

With thinking men, the question can never arise, who ought to be free? Because no one ought to be free. All government is slavery.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

…the great truth which lies at the foundation of all society—that every man has property in his fellow-man!

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Men are not ‘born entitled to equal right! It would be far nearer the truth to say, ‘that some were born with saddles on their backs, and others booted and spurred to ride them’—and the riding does them good.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

No association, no efficient combination of labor can be effected till men give up their liberty of action and subject themselves to a common despotic head or ruler. This is slavery, and towards this socialism is moving.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

A Southern farm is beau idea of Communism; it is a joint concern, in which the slaves consume more than the master, of the coarse products, and is far happier, because although the concern may fail; he is always sure of a support.

Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Fitzhugh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.