488 Quotes About Political-philosophy

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

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.

... If in other respects the old condition of things be continued, and there be no discordance in their customs, men live peaceably with one another...

A prince ... is only the first servant of the state, who is obliged to act with probity and prudence. ... As the sovereign is properly the head of a family of citizens, the father of his people, he ought on all occasions to be the last refuge of the unfortunate.

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

Ogni frammento di libertà consegnato nelle mani dello Stato rischia d'essere perduto per sempre; come una nuova tassa, che una volta introdotta non viene mai più tolta.

The neoconservative pseudo-conservatives speak like Tocqueville but act like Robespierre.

If terrorism has no religion then intolerance has no country either

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