“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Incidentally, the same logic that would force one to accept the idea of the production of security by private business as economically… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree… — Aberjhani 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
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
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
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
“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
“It is disgraceful to our educational institutions and to the political intelligence of Americans, that in discussion of the notorious "Moscow trials,"… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“The political reform is important, but no reform will be greater than promoting popular awareness.” — Victor Bello Accioly Copy Share Image
“Limited government is not a means to liberty, it is an end. That is to say, there are always going to be… — Richard D. Baris 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
