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RATIONALITY AND ENLIGHTENMENT 1515–1770
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The Politics Book
INTRODUCTION
ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGHT 800 BCE–30 CE
If your desire is for good, the people will be good • Confucius
The art of war is of vital importance to the state • Sun Tzu
Plans for the country are only to be shared with the learned • Mozi
Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils • Plato
Man is by nature a political animal • Aristotle
A single wheel does not move • Chanakya
If evil ministers enjoy safety and profit, this is the beginning of downfall • Han Fei Tzu
The government is bandied about like a ball • Cicero
MEDIEVAL POLITICS 30 CE–1515 CE
If justice be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers? • Augustine of Hippo
Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you • Muhammad
The people refuse the rule of virtuous men • Al-Farabi
No free man shall be imprisoned, except by the law of the land • Barons of King John
For war to be just, there is required a just cause • Thomas Aquinas
To live politically means living in accordance with good laws • Giles of Rome
The Church should devote itself to imitating Christ and give up its secular power • Marsilius of Padua
Government prevents injustice, other than such as it commits itself • Ibn Khaldun
A prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honor his word • Niccolò Machiavelli
RATIONALITY AND ENLIGHTENMENT 1515–1770
In the beginning, everything was common to all • Francisco de Vitoria
Sovereignty is the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth • Jean Bodin
The natural law is the foundation of human law • Francisco Suárez
Politics is the art of associating men • Johannes Althusius
Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves • Hugo Grotius
The condition of man is a condition of war • Thomas Hobbes
The end of law is to preserve and enlarge freedom • John Locke
When legislative and executive powers are united in the same body, there can be no liberty • Montesquieu
Independent entrepreneurs make good citizens • Benjamin Franklin
REVOLUTIONARY THOUGHTS 1770–1848
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No generally valid principle of legislation can be based on happiness • Immanuel Kant
The passions of individuals should be subjected • Edmund Burke
Rights dependent on property are the most precarious • Thomas Paine
All men are created equal • Thomas Jefferson
Each nationality contains its center of happiness within itself • Johann Gottfried Herder
Government has but a choice of evils • Jeremy Bentham
The people have a right to keep and bear arms • James Madison
The most respectable women are the most oppressed • Mary Wollstonecraft
The slave feels self-existence to be something external • Georg Hegel
War is the continuation of Politik by other means • Carl von Clausewitz
Abolition and the Union cannot coexist • John C. Calhoun
A state too extensive in itself ultimately falls into decay • Simón Bolívar
An educated and wise government recognizes the developmental needs of its society • José María Luis Mora
The tendency to attack “the family” is a symptom of social chaos • Auguste Comte
THE RISE OF THE MASSES 1848–1910
Socialism is a new system of serfdom • Alexis de Tocqueville
Say not I, but we • Giuseppe Mazzini
That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time • John Stuart Mill
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent • Abraham Lincoln
Property is theft • Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The privileged man is a man depraved in intellect and heart • Mikhail Bakunin
That government is best which governs not at all • Henry David Thoreau
Communism is the riddle of history solved • Karl Marx
The men who proclaimed the republic became the assassins of freedom • Alexander Herzen
We must look for a central axis for our nation • Ito Hirobumi
The will to power • Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the myth that is alone important • Georges Sorel
We have to take working men as they are • Eduard Bernstein
The disdain of our formidable neighbor is the greatest danger for Latin America • José Martí
It is necessary to dare in order to succeed • Peter Kropotkin
Either women are to be killed, or women are to have the vote • Emmeline Pankhurst
It is ridiculous to deny the existence of a Jewish nation • Theodor Herzl
Nothing will avail to save a nation whose workers have decayed • Beatrice Webb
Protective legislation in America is shamefully inadequate • Jane Addams
Land to the tillers! • Sun Yat-Sen
The individual is a single cog in an ever-moving mechanism • Max Weber
THE CLASH OF IDEOLOGIES 1910–1945
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith • Mahatma Gandhi
Politics begin where the masses are • Vladimir Lenin
The mass strike results from social conditions with historical inevitability • Rosa Luxemburg
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last • Winston Churchill
The Fascist conception of the state is all-embracing • Giovanni Gentile
The wealthy farmers must be deprived of the sources of their existence • Joseph Stalin
If the end justifies the means, what justifies the end? • Leon Trotsky
We will unite Mexicans by giving guarantees to the peasant and the businessman • Emiliano Zapata
War is a racket • Smedley D. Butler
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken • Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Europe has been left without a moral code • José Ortega y Gasset
We are 400 million people asking for liberty • Marcus Garvey
India cannot really be free unless separated from the British empire • Manabendra Nath Roy
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception • Carl Schmitt
Communism is as bad as imperialism • Jomo Kenyatta
The state must be conceived of as an “educator” • Antonio Gramsci
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun • Mao Zedong
POSTWAR POLITICS 1945–PRESENT
The chief evil is unlimited government • Friedrich Hayek
Parliamentary government and rationalist politics do not belong to the same system • Michael Oakeshott
The objective of the Islamic jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system • Abul Ala Maududi
There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men • Ayn Rand
Every known and established fact can be denied • Hannah Arendt
What is a woman? • Simone de Beauvoir
No natural object is solely a resource • Arne Naess
We are not anti-white, we are against white supremacy • Nelson Mandela
Only the weak-minded believe that politics is a place of collaboration • Gianfranco Miglio
During the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed tend to become oppressors • Paulo Freire
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions • John Rawls
Colonialism is violence in its natural state • Frantz Fanon
The ballot or the bullet • Malcolm X
We need to “cut off the king’s head” • Michel Foucault
Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves • Che Guevara
Everybody has to make sure that the rich folks are happy • Noam Chomsky
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance • Martin Luther King
Perestroika unites socialism with democracy • Mikhail Gorbachev
The intellectuals erroneously fought Islam • Ali Shariati
The hellishness of war drives us to break with every restraint • Michael Walzer
No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified • Robert Nozick
No Islamic law says violate women’s rights • Shirin Ebadi
Suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation • Robert Pape
DIRECTORY
GLOSSARY
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
COPYRIGHT
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