Middle ages Quote by Joseph Reese Strayer

“The German experience brings us face to face with the major problem of the revolution in Western Europe. In these countries, the old bourgeois…

— Anonymous

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

— Kelly Miller

“The process of political centralization can actually lead to a form of absolutism, as the king and his associates can crush other powerful groups…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“New political systems and philosophies were imported into the Near East under the general term democracy and grafted artificially into a society which was…

— Gerald De Gaury

“We saw in the previous chapter how the process of political centralization under the Tudor monarchy in England increased demands for voice and representation…

— Daron Acemoğlu

There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance after World…

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of…

— Nicos Poulantzas

“In the sixteenth century the unity of western European Christendom had been shattered by the rise of Protestantism in its various strands (Lutheran, Calvinist,…

— Jerry Z. Muller

“In Germany they had no kings. They developed them in Britain from leaders who claimed descent from the ancient gods.”

— Winston S. Churchill

The rule of the bourgeois democrats [in pre-federal Germany], from the very first, will carry within it the seeds of its own destruction

— Karl Marx

“The impersonal forces of over-population and over-organization, and the social engineers who are trying to direct these forces, are pushing us in the direction…

— Aldous Huxley

I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more centralized governance…

— Mario Monti