38 Quotes About Political-theory

Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is the epitome of a Pan-Africanist who can praise any world leader who likes his leadership and is known for threatening Western leaders whenever his strong-man mentality comes under attack.

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...

[Libertarianism] crumbles because it attempts to square the circle. Two loyalties -- one particular to one's own community, the other to an infinitely open system -- cannot be reconciled.

The political reform is important, but no reform will be greater than promoting popular awareness.

I teased Fabrizio: "We're studying theology here.""How? Are you making fun of me?""Not at all. Livy read historical chronicles. He interprets them by his own passionate views and freezes them for all time. . . . He wanted theoretical support for a conclusion he accepted beforehand. Isn't that theology?

The right to provoke, offend, and shock lies at the core of the First Amendment. This is particularly so on college campuses. Intellectual advancement has traditionally progressed through discord and dissent, as a diversity of views ensures that ideas survive because they are correct, not because they are popular.

Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it's a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there's no decent argument left in the armoury.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.