Politics / Government Quotes ( 170 - 180 of 719 )
It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs read more
It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.
War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
War: a wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.
The multitude is always in the wrong.
The multitude is always in the wrong.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the read more
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely read more
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond read more
In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and "charitable" acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.
Glory is the child of peril.
Glory is the child of peril.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
