38 Quotes About Political-theory

There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.

Moderation may be particularly relevant in a post-Cold War age such as ours because it enables us to deal with the antinomies and tensions at the heart of our contemporary societies and allows us to defend the pluralism of ideas, principles, and interests against its enemies. ... Moderation should be regarded as an eclectic virtue transcending the conventional categories of our political vocabulary.

As commended by ancient and religious traditions alike, liberty is not liberation from constraint but rather our capacity to govern appetite and thus achieve a truer form of liberty—liberty from enslavement to our appetites and avoidance of depletion of the world.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.... you have a dream.

If your political theory requires humanity to "evolve", then you do not have a theory.

Vox populi vox Dei

Flesh for flesh, blood for blood. And if an eye for an eye makes the world blind, I’ll be the first damned motherfucker to learn braille and then cut the fingers off of everyone else.

Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress.

All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.