“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“We must endure the ignorant to protect the liberty of the majority.” — James D. Best Copy Share Image
“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“I had this terrible nightmare; I dreamt I was a politician and they were dragging me off to parliament” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
“Information without truth bred skepticism; skepticism without truth bred submission.” — Brutus Copy Share Image
We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people. — T. Rafael Cimino Copy Share Image
“A people without memory cannot resist tyranny, and a nation without heroes cannot produce them.” — Brutus Copy Share Image
I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Pluralism has been the driving fact behind political theory now since the Copernican revolution and the wars of religion that were spawned… — Barry Gardiner Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government,… — Arthur James Moore Copy Share Image
I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“The Enlightenment may have made its most lasting impact in the way we live and think today through its social history. Our… — Louis Dupré Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of administrators, at all times and in all societies, are prone to commit grievous errors if left entirely to… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
“Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos." "To accept the legitimacy of the state… — L.K. Samuels Copy Share Image
It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws,… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to… — Subcomandante Marcos Laura Castellanos Copy Share Image
“I should have paid greater attention to my mentor in graduate school, Samuel Huntington, who once explained that Americans never recognize that,… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“The classical heritage as shaped by and filtered through Roman culture had two great flaws. First, it prevented the very rich oral… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Nationalism appeals to our tribal instincts, to passion and to prejudice, and to our nostalgic desire to be relieved from the strain… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“Playboy: But you are interested in politics, or at least in political theory, aren’t you? Rand: Let me answer you this way:… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“One of the main purposes of university education is to escape from the Zeitgeist, from the mean, narrow, provincial spirit which is… — Martin Wight Copy Share Image
“some Japanese philosophers have been eager to graft the newly introduced discipline of western academic philosophy onto its premodern Japanese antecedents. The… — James W. Heisig Copy Share Image
“It is the question that is also asked by modern political theory: Can politics accept truth as a structural category? Or must… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Like I told you, I’m not interested. I think the party is mostly a means of advancing one’s career anyway.” “Exactly, and… — Maureen F. McHugh Copy Share Image
“The fact is that libertarianism is not and does not pretend to be a complete moral or aesthetic theory; it is only… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But if it be true, as every prospect assures us, that the human race shall not again relapse into its ancient barbarity;… — Nicolas de Condorcet Copy Share Image
“Two centuries ago, the United States settled into a permanent political order, after fourteen years of violence and heated debate. Two centuries… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“Legal and political theory have committed much mischief by failing to pinpoint physical invasion as the only human action that should be… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The normative principle I am suggesting for the law is simply this: No action should be considered illicit or illegal unless it… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“The idea of an earthly paradise in which men should live together in a state of brotherhood, without laws and without brute… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
