Francis Fukuyama

“Both Hegel and Marx believed that the evolution of human societies was not open-ended, but would end when mankind had achieved a…

— Francis Fukuyama

It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging…

— Francis Fukuyama

“But we forget that government was also created to act and make decisions.”

— Francis Fukuyama

The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly…

— Francis Fukuyama

In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.

— Francis Fukuyama

I've always had a Marxist understanding of history: democracy is a result of a broad modernization process that happens in every country.…

— Francis Fukuyama

“Evrimsel biyologlara göre önümüzdeki en büyük bilmece bireylerin neden öldüğü değil, örneğin dişi insanların neden uzun bir menapoz sonrası yaşam sürdürdükleridir. Bunun…

— Francis Fukuyama

If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the…

— Francis Fukuyama

“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the…

— Francis Fukuyama

Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation

— Francis Fukuyama

What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries.…

— Francis Fukuyama

“For Hegel, freedom was not just a psychological phenomenon, but the essence of what was distinctively human. In this sense, freedom and…

— Francis Fukuyama

“but on Hegel, his "idealist" predecessor who was the first philosopher to answer Kant's challenge of writing a Universal History. For Hegel's…

— Francis Fukuyama

The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ...…

— Francis Fukuyama

“A political system that is all checks and balances is potentially no more successful than one with no checks, because governments periodically…

— Francis Fukuyama