Раффлз, Стэмфорд цитаты

Сэр Томас Стэмфорд Бингли Раффлз — британский колониальный администратор, один из наиболее известных «отцов» Британской империи, основатель современного Сингапура. Во время Наполеоновских войн организовал захват англичанами острова Ява. Известен также как эрудит-востоковед, знаток истории и культуры Нусантары, автор 2-томной «Истории Явы». Wikipedia

✵ 6. Июль 1781 – 5. Июль 1826

Раффлз, Стэмфорд: Цитаты на английском языке

“The Dutch Company, actuated solely by the spirit of gain, and viewing their [Javan] subjects, with less regard or consideration than a West India planter formerly viewed a gang upon his estate, because the latter had paid the purchase money of human property, which the other had not, employed all the existing machinery of despotism to squeeze from the people their utmost mite of contribution, the last dregs of their labor, and thus aggravated the evils of a capricious and semi-barbarous Government, by working it with all the practised ingenuity of politicians, and all the monopolizing selfishness of traders.”

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Stamford Raffles

T.S. Raffles, The History of Java (London 1871), book 1, pg. 168. Here as quoted in the New-York Daily Tribune, June 25, 1853 by Karl Marx https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1853/06/25.htm.