Ezra Heywood Born : September 29, 1829 Died : May 22, 1893 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Ezra Heywood The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in, and helps him catch and fleece his victims. The old plea of despotism, that liberty is unsafe, reappears now in the mistaken notion that competition is hostile to labor. Ezra Heywood competition liberty survival Interest is theft, Rent Robbery, and Profit Only Another Name for Plunder. Ezra Heywood plunder profit names The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at this point, free-traders go over to the enemy; and many writers on political economy, in flat contradiction of the essential principles of that science, have made elaborate arguments to prove self-government in finance, impossible! What shall we think of men who, having dethroned kings, demolished popes, destroyed slave oligarchies and assailed tariff monopoly, advise submission to the most oppressive and dishonest of despotisms, Usury? Ezra Heywood kings men thinking
