The Last Utopia Quotes

“We will do much more for the happiness of the lower classes," utopian socialist Victor Considerant wrote, "for their real emancipation and true progress, in guaranteeing these classes well-remunerated work, than in winning political rights and a meaningless sovereignty for them. The most important of the people's rights is the right to work.”
― Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History

“If human rights are treated as inborn, or long in preparation, people will not confront the true reasons they have become so powerful to-day and examine whether those reasons are still persuasive.”
― Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History