488 Quotes About Political-philosophy

but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity, and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and chreerful life, free from anxieties; neither apprehending want himself, nor vexed with the endless complaints of his wife?

Inquiricide: the act of killing inquiry by vilifying the questioner or source of inquiry!RjS

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

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

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

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

In a society where the majority choose charisma over character, democracy does more harm than good to the actual progress of that society

The resolve of a humble commoner can crumble a mountain to dust.

No matter the time and era, if ever a government in any corner of the world, begins to persecute a population on the basis of race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, in the name of national security and prosperity, then it is the existential responsibility of every thinking human to stand up and defy the authority of such heinous, uneducated, megalomaniacal, delusional and self-righteous government.