Political-philosophy Quotes

There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm ...

Cathy smiled back ‘Rules were meant to be broken.’‘Don’t disagree,’ Oversteegen replied immediately....

The bigger the government, the more the corruption. It's almost never mentioned, and it might be the...

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by for...

The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and...

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The re...

If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will thi...

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to...

To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same....

The greatest lesson for democracies to learn is for the majority to give to the minority a full, fre...

Tell me,' asked Stas, 'what is a wicked deed?' 'If anyone takes away Kali's cow,' he answered after ...

Anarchy is law and freedom without force.Despotism is law and force without freedom.Barbarism force ...

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarch...

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, ...

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or ...

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather suffici...

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing b...

The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in you...

..it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into ano...

Is it better to be loved or feared?

Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may t...

Most schooling is training for stupidity and conformity, and that's institutional, but occasionally ...

Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and ...

Sonnet: Political GreatnessNor happiness, nor majesty, nor fame,Nor peace, nor strength, nor skill i...

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ...

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised...

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It...

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a...

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in d...

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared t...

Yet through virtuous living man is further ordained to a higher end, which consists in the enjoyment...

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies,...

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation...

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at...

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...

Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...

but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to kee...

...if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this...

but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to kee...

The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them...

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue...

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loud...

...our great modern error is the belief that we must invariably give up one thing in order to have a...

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire facu...

The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds an...

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding o...

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democrat...

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and d...

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly...

Theory -the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees- theory can be a dew that ri...

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Gr...

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

I think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class societ...

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stu...

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not ...