Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the difference between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. – I.10. “Inequalities occasioned by the policy of Europe”

의회가 고용주와 노동자 사이의 의견 차이를 조정하고자 하면, 의회의 상담역은 어김없이 고용주다. – “유럽의 정책에서 빚어진 불평등”

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. – V.1.55

시민 정부가 재산을 보호하려고 구성된 것이기에, 실제로도 가난한 사람한테서 부자를 지키려고 구성되거나, 재산이 전혀 없는 이들한테서 어느 정도 재산이 있는 사람을 지키려고 구성된다.

cf. “The keen observer, Adam Smith, believed that this was not a happen-so of this particular moment, but was a generalisation true for all capitalist countries, at all times. The employers in looking to their hero for sanction for their deeds were careful not to dwell too long on this passage from ‘The Wealth of Nations: Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.” – Leo Huberman, Man’s Worldly Goods.