Political Philosophy Quotes

Political Philosophy Quote of the day

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Extreme liberalism is not a political philosophy. It is a mental disorder.

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

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

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

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

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

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

If your desire is for good, the people will be good.

Is it better to be loved or feared?

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.

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

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

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

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

Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.

The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.

In my political philosophy I think that there sometimes is room for violence.

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.

We've got communism. We have Bushism. We have Clintonism. But there isn't a Trumpism. Bullet-point for me what the Trump political philosophy is and you can't do it, because he's not a political guy.

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

My interest in political philosophy was rather casual until I met Hayek.

My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his.

The negatives were [Adolf Hitler] political philosophies, but neither Eva [Braun] or I knew anything that was going on.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.

Peace cannot come by legislation or through affiliation with any political philosophy...Peace, joy, and happiness can come only through an acceptance of God's revealed plan of life.

History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

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

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.

I dream of a world where Science shapes the structure of a society, rather than politics.

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

Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.

Don't ask me to pray, instead ask me to act.

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

The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of progress.