Believe Quote by Hannah Arendt

“After 1789, politics ceased to be considered as the prudent management of men and circumstances, in order to become the 'realization of ideas'. Political…

— Irving Kristol

The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political…

— Bernard Bailyn

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by…

— Jose Saramago

All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .

— John Maynard Keynes

“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of political knowledge,…

— Robert Nandor Berki

However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract…

— Simon Mainwaring

At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political.

— Douglas Sirk

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

— Bernard Bailyn

Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' when the people would rule, which was sheer…

— David Limbaugh

There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there were only…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

In my case I've never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in my acid days.

— John Lennon

The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes,…

— Simon Mainwaring