“The result is a dangerous lag between the natural sciences and the social sciences. The natural sciences and the technologies they spawn… — Thomas Homer-Dixon 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
When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
“Oligarchy: Rule by the few, usually the richest One Percent. In Aristotle’s political theory, oligarchy is the stage into which democracy evolves,… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“Christian political theory does not adhere to a passive conservatism. nor is it enamored of progress. It is conservative in principles, but… — Heinrich A. Rommen 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
“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
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
“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
“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.” — A.E. Samaan 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
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's… — Simon Schama 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
“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
“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
“...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
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
“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development -… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
“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
“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of… — Robert Nandor Berki 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
“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
