History Quote by Raymond Geuss

A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and…

— Raymond Geuss

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man - and the one cannot be derived…

— Kenneth Waltz

“For those under the age of 45 it seemed that world events had finally contrived a meaningful test of their capacity for conscientious political…

— Joseph O'Neill

Universities in general and my university in particular really has to reach out and find ways to engage more with a broader array of…

— Mark Schlissel

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

— Raymond Aron

For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive…

— John Carroll

“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

“The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom of speech,…

— George Orwell

If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course…

— Millicent Fawcett

I find the expectation that a public figure - who is known for something besides, like, having a political thought, someone who puts on…

— Bowen Yang

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less…

— Hannah Arendt

I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there…

— Joan Didion