Politics Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

“It is compromise that prevents each set of reformers from crushing the group at the other end of the political spectrum.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”

— Ludwig von Mises

“Political order, in short, requires cultural unity, something that politics itself can never provide.”

— Roger Scruton

“However enlightened and however skilful a central power may be, it cannot of itself embrace all the details of the existence of a great…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The struggle between centralization and decentralization is at the core of American history.

— Anthony Gregory

“When the barons and local elites recognize that political power will be increasingly more centralized and that this process is hard to stop, they…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Revolutions are rarely if ever majoritarian but instead are usually propelled by a small group that is disciplined and fanatical to which a passive…

— Frederic C. Rich

“Things happen fast, during the time of transition in a totalitarian society.”

— Philip K. Dick

“Second we find in our prerevolutionary society definite and indeed very bitter class antagonisms, though these antagonisms seem rather more complicated than the cruder…

— Brinton Crane

“Any society can be controlled and pushed on the road to peace and progress but not an intolerant one.”

— Dr.Ashok Anand

“Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Because widespread participation is so central to popular sovereignty, we can say that the less political participation there is in a society, the weaker…

— Edward S. Greenberg