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> [“Realism maintains that universal moral principles cannot be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation, but that they must be filtered through the concrete circumstances of time and place. The individual may say for himself: "Fiat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-j-morgenthau/realism-maintains-that-universal-moral-principles-cannot-be-applied/)

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## More by Hans J. Morgenthau

> [“We must distinguish between military and political power. Political power is a psychological relation between those who exercise it and those over whom it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-j-morgenthau/we-must-distinguish-between-military-and-political-power-political/)

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> [“However much the theory of political realism may have been misunderstood and misinterpreted, there is no gainsaying its distinctive intellectual and moral attitude to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-j-morgenthau/however-much-the-theory-of-political-realism-may-have-been/)

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> [“The struggle for power is universal in time and space and is an undeniable fact of experience. It cannot be denied that throughout historic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-j-morgenthau/the-struggle-for-power-is-universal-in-time-and-space-and-is-an/)

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> [“The philosophy of rationalism has misunderstood the nature of man, the nature of the social world, and the nature of reason itself. It does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-j-morgenthau/the-philosophy-of-rationalism-has-misunderstood-the-nature-of-man-the/)

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> [“Political realism believes that politics, like society in general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature. In order to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-j-morgenthau/political-realism-believes-that-politics-like-society-in-general-is/)

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> [“Political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations of a particular nation with the moral laws that govern the universe. As it distinguishes between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-j-morgenthau/political-realism-refuses-to-identify-the-moral-aspirations-of-a/)

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> [“Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-j-morgenthau/politics-is-an-art-and-not-a-science-and-what-is-required-for-its/)

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> [“Realism maintains that universal moral principles cannot be applied to the actions of states in their abstract universal formulation, but that they must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-j-morgenthau/realism-maintains-that-universal-moral-principles-cannot-be-applied/)

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