Philosophy Quote by Harvey Mansfield

“Everything that happens in philosophy has, in the last instance, not only political consequences in theory, but also political consequences in politics: in the…

— Louis Althusser

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

— Francis Parker Yockey

“This is not to say that science itself is politics. Scientific knowledge is profoundly different from political ideology. Science is an intellectual system producing…

— Bruce Sterling

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be…

— W. H. Auden

“Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos." "To accept the legitimacy of the state is to…

— L.K. Samuels

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

— Jeff Greenfield

“Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without achieving science.”

— Alfred Cobban

“Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political science must…

— Aristotle

The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication…

— Raymond Geuss

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

— Francis Parker Yockey

“If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.”

— A.E. Samaan

“It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it is won,…

— Jon Meacham