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
“Every mother want her children to be like their father; except politicians” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible — Francis Parker Yockey 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
The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
“Republican theory clearly stated that the people held all political power, and only they could delegate authority to a government. The people… — James D. Best Copy Share Image
“A nation built on ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident’ cannot long survive when its people are taught that no truth… — Brutus 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
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of the Overton Window. It's not a piece of glass but a political theory named after the… — Gavin Esler 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
“that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they… — Arthur Koestler 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
Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Note: When reading dry political theory, such as the texts you will find on the following pages, it may be useful to… — CrimethInc Copy Share Image
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by… — Arthur Seyss-Inquart 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
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
“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
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
“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
“[I]n so far as postmodern politics involves a '[t]heoretical retreat from the problem of domination within capitalism,' it is here, in this… — Slavoj Žižek 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
“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
“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
The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and romantic comedic… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there… — Martha C. Nussbaum 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
“Augustine countered with the long view: Empires rise and fall in the natural order of things, but the church's mission stands apart… — Vincent Carroll Copy Share Image
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