“Political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations of a particular nation with the moral laws that govern the universe. As it distinguishes between truth and opinion, so it distinguishes between truth and idolatry. All nations are tempted — and… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“We must distinguish between military and political power. Political power is a psychological relation between those who exercise it and those over whom it… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“However much the theory of political realism may have been misunderstood and misinterpreted, there is no gainsaying its distinctive intellectual and moral attitude to… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“The struggle for power is universal in time and space and is an undeniable fact of experience. It cannot be denied that throughout historic… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“The philosophy of rationalism has misunderstood the nature of man, the nature of the social world, and the nature of reason itself. It does… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“Political realism believes that politics, like society in general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature. In order to… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“Political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations of a particular nation with the moral laws that govern the universe. As it distinguishes between… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
“Realism maintains that universal moral principles cannot be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation, but that they must be… — Hans J. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
