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- Summary
- "Exploring more than 100 big ideas on topics as diverse as the rule of law, the extent of liberty, and the justification of warfare, [this book] takes you on a journey through the history of politics, from the influential theories of ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia to modern concepts voiced by today's brightest political thinkers."--Front jacket flap
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- 352 p.
- Note
-
- Subtitle from cover
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Ancient political thought, 800 BCE-30 CE. If your desire is for good, the people will be good / Confucius ; The art of war is of vital importance to the state / Sun Tzu ; Plans for the country are only to be shared with the learned / Mozi ; Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils / Plato ; Man is by nature a political animal / Aristotle ; A single wheel does not move / Chanakya ; If evil ministers enjoy safety and profit, this is the beginning of downfall / Han Fei Tzu ; The government is bandied about like a ball / Cicero -- Medieval politics, 30 CE-1515 CE.If justice be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers? / Augustine of Hippo ; Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you / Muhammad ; The people refuse the rule of virtuous men / Al-Farabi ; No free man shall be imprisoned, except by the law of the land / Barons of King John ; For war to be just, there is required a just cause / Thomas Aquinas ; To live politically means living in accordance with good laws / Giles of Rome ; The Church should devote itself to imitating Christ and give up its secular power / Marsilius of Padua ; Government prevents injustice, other than such as it commits itself / Ibn Khaldun ; A prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honor his word / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Rationality and enlightenment, 1515-1770. In the beginning, everything was common to all / Francisco de Vitoria ; Sovereignty is the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth / Jean Bodin ; The natural law is the foundation of human law / Francisco Suárez ; Politics is the art of associating men / Johannes Althusius ; Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves / Hugo Grotius ; The condition of man is a condition of war / Thomas Hobbes ; The end of law is to preserve and enlarge freedom / John Locke ; When legislative and executive powers are united in the same body, there can be no liberty / Montesquieu ; Independent entrepreneurs make good citizens / Benjamin Franklin --
- Revolutionary thoughts, 1770-1848. To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; No generally valid principle of legislation can be based on happiness / Immanuel Kant ; The passions of individuals should be subjected / Edmund Burke ; Rights dependent on property are the most precarious / Thomas Paine ; All men are created equal / Thomas Jefferson ; Each nationality contains its center of happiness within itself / Johann Gottfried Herder ; Government has but a choice of evils / Jeremy Bentham ; The people have a right to keep and bear arms / James Madison ; The most respectable women are the most oppressed / Mary Wollstonecraft ; The slave feels self-existence to be something external / Georg Hegel ; War is the continuation of Politik by other means / Carl von Clausewitz ; Abolition and the Union cannot coexist / John C. Calhoun ; A state too extensive in itself ultimately falls into decay / Simón Bolívar ; An educated and wise government recognizes the developmental needs of its society / José María Luis Mora ; The tendency to attack "the family" is a symptom of social chaos / Auguste Comte -- The rise of the masses, 1848-1910.Socialism is a new system of serfdom / Alexis de Tocqueville ; Say not I, but we / Giuseppe Mazzini ; That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time / John Stuart Mill ; No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent / Abraham Lincoln ; Property is theft / Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ; The privileged man is a man depraved in intellect and heart / Mikhail Bakunin ; That government is best which governs not at all / Henry David Thoreau ; Communism is the riddle of history solved / Karl Marx ; The men who proclaimed the republic became the assassins of freedom / Alexander Herzen ; We must look for a central axis for our nation / Ito Hirobumi ; The will to power / Friedrich Nietzsche ; It is the myth that is alone important / Georges Sorel ; We have to take working men as they are / Eduard Bernstein ; The disdain of our formidable neighbor is the greatest danger for Latin America / José Martí ; It is necessary to dare in order to succeed / Peter Kropotkin ; Either women are to be killed, or women are to have the vote / Emmeline Pankhurst ; It is ridiculous to deny the existence of a Jewish nation / Theodor Herzl ; Nothing will avail to save a nation whose workers have decayed / Beatrice Webb ; Protective legislation in America is shamefully inadequate / Jane Addams ; Land to the tillers! / Sun Yat-Sen ; The individual is a single cog in an ever-moving mechanism / Max Weber -- The clash of ideologies, 1910-1945. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith / Mahatma Gandhi ; Politics begin where the masses are / Vladimir Lenin ; The mass strike results from social conditions with historical inevitability / Rosa Luxemburg ; An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last / Winston Churchill ; The Fascist conception of the state is all-embracing / Giovanni Gentile ; The wealthy farmers must be deprived of the sources of their existence / Joseph Stalin ; If the end justifies the means, what justifies the end? / Leon Trotsky ; We will unite Mexicans by giving guarantees to the peasant and the businessman / Emiliano Zapata ; War is a racket / Smedley D. Butler ; Sovereignty is not given, it is taken / Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ; Europe has been left without a moral code / José Ortega y Gasset ; We are 400 million people asking for liberty / Marcus Garvey ; India cannot really be free unless separated from the British empire / Manabendra Nath Roy ; Sovereign is he who decides on the exception / Carl Schmitt ; Communism is as bad as imperialism / Jomo Kenyatta ; The state must be conceived of as an "educator" / Antonio Gramsci ; Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun / Mao Zedong -- Postwar politics, 1945-present. The chief evil is unlimited government / Friedrich Hayek ; Parliamentary government and rationalist politics do not belong to the same system / Michael Oakeshott ; The objective of the Islamic jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system / Abul Ala Maududi ; There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men / Ayn Rand ; Every known and established fact can be denied / Hannah Arendt ; What is a woman? / Simone de Beauvoir ; No natural object is solely a resource / Arne Naess ; We are not anti-white, we are against white supremacy / Nelson Mandela ; Only the weak-minded believe that politics is a place of collaboration / Gianfranco Miglio ; During the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed tend to become oppressors / Paulo Freire ; Justice is the first virtue of social institutions / John Rawls ; Colonialism is violence in its natural state / Frantz Fanon ; The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X ; We need to "cut off the king's head" / Michel Foucault ; Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves / Che Guevara ; Everybody has to make sure that the rich folks are happy / Noam Chomsky ; Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance / Martin Luther King ; Perestroika unites socialism with democracy / Mikhail Gorbachev ; The intellectuals erroneously fought Islam / Ali Shariati ; The hellishness of war drives us to break with every restraint / Michael Walzer ; No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified / Robert Nozick ; No Islamic law says violate women's rights / Shirin Ebadi ; Suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation / Robert Pape
- Isbn
- 9781465402141
- Label
- The politics book
- Title
- The politics book
- Title variation
- Politics book
- Title variation remainder
- [big ideas simply explained]
- Subject
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- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
- Althusius, Johannes, 1557-1638
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
- Aristotle
- Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
- Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1814-1876
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832
- Bernstein, Eduard, 1850-1932
- Bodin, Jean, 1530-1596
- Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Butler, Smedley D., (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940
- Calhoun, John C., (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
- Chomsky, Noam
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831
- Comte, Auguste, 1798-1857
- Confucius
- Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997
- Fārābī
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
- Gentile, Giovanni, 1875-1944
- Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316
- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-
- Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937
- Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645
- Guevara, Che, 1928-1967
- Han, Fei, -233 B.C
- Hayek, Friedrich A. von, (Friedrich August), 1899-1992
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
- Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803
- Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870
- Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
- Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1406
- Itō, Hirobumi, 1841-1909
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
- Kauṭalya
- Kenyatta, Jomo
- King, Martin Luther, Jr, 1929-1968
- Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kni͡azʹ, 1842-1921
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Locke, John, 1632-1704
- Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
- Madison, James, 1751-1836
- Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
- Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
- Marsilius, of Padua, -1342?
- Martí, José, 1853-1895
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
- Maudoodi, Syed Abul ʻAla, 1903-1979
- Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872
- Miglio, Gianfranco
- Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
- Mo, Di, active 400 B.C
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
- Mora, José María Luis, 1794-1850
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
- Nozick, Robert S
- Næss, Arne
- Oakeshott, Michael, 1901-1990
- Ortega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
- Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928
- Pape, Robert Anthony, 1960-
- Plato
- Political science
- Political science -- History
- Proudhon, P.-J., (Pierre-Joseph), 1809-1865
- Rand, Ayn
- Rawls, John, 1921-2002
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
- Roy, M. N., (Manabendra Nath), 1887-1954
- Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985
- Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī
- Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922
- Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
- Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925
- Sunzi, active 6th century B.C
- Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
- Vitoria, Francisco de, 1486?-1546
- Walzer, Michael
- Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943
- Weber, Max, 1864-1920
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
- World politics
- X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
- Zapata, Emiliano, 1879-1919
- ʻIbādī, Shīrīn
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Exploring more than 100 big ideas on topics as diverse as the rule of law, the extent of liberty, and the justification of warfare, [this book] takes you on a journey through the history of politics, from the influential theories of ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia to modern concepts voiced by today's brightest political thinkers."--Front jacket flap
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- Dewey number
- 320.01
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- JA71
- LC item number
- .P64185 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Political science
- Political science
- World politics
- Confucius
- Sunzi
- Mo, Di
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Kauṭalya
- Han, Fei
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Augustine
- Muḥammad
- Fārābī
- Thomas
- Giles
- Marsilius
- Ibn Khaldūn
- Machiavelli, Niccolò
- Vitoria, Francisco de
- Bodin, Jean
- Suárez, Francisco
- Althusius, Johannes
- Grotius, Hugo
- Hobbes, Thomas
- Locke, John
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat
- Franklin, Benjamin
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Kant, Immanuel
- Burke, Edmund
- Paine, Thomas
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Herder, Johann Gottfried
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Madison, James
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Clausewitz, Carl von
- Calhoun, John C.
- Bolívar, Simón
- Mora, José María Luis
- Comte, Auguste
- Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Mazzini, Giuseppe
- Mill, John Stuart
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Proudhon, P.-J.
- Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Marx, Karl
- Herzen, Aleksandr
- Itō, Hirobumi
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Sorel, Georges
- Bernstein, Eduard
- Martí, José
- Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich
- Pankhurst, Emmeline
- Herzl, Theodor
- Webb, Beatrice
- Addams, Jane
- Sun, Yat-sen
- Weber, Max
- Gandhi
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich
- Luxemburg, Rosa
- Churchill, Winston
- Gentile, Giovanni
- Stalin, Joseph
- Trotsky, Leon
- Zapata, Emiliano
- Butler, Smedley D.
- Atatürk, Kemal
- Ortega y Gasset, José
- Garvey, Marcus
- Roy, M. N.
- Schmitt, Carl
- Kenyatta, Jomo
- Gramsci, Antonio
- Mao, Zedong
- Hayek, Friedrich A. von
- Oakeshott, Michael
- Maudoodi, Syed Abul ʻAla
- Rand, Ayn
- Arendt, Hannah
- Beauvoir, Simone de
- Næss, Arne
- Mandela, Nelson
- Miglio, Gianfranco
- Freire, Paulo
- Rawls, John
- Fanon, Frantz
- X, Malcolm
- Foucault, Michel
- Guevara, Che
- Chomsky, Noam
- King, Martin Luther
- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich
- Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī
- Walzer, Michael
- Nozick, Robert S
- ʻIbādī, Shīrīn
- Pape, Robert Anthony
- Label
- The politics book
- Note
-
- Subtitle from cover
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Ancient political thought, 800 BCE-30 CE. If your desire is for good, the people will be good / Confucius ; The art of war is of vital importance to the state / Sun Tzu ; Plans for the country are only to be shared with the learned / Mozi ; Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils / Plato ; Man is by nature a political animal / Aristotle ; A single wheel does not move / Chanakya ; If evil ministers enjoy safety and profit, this is the beginning of downfall / Han Fei Tzu ; The government is bandied about like a ball / Cicero -- Medieval politics, 30 CE-1515 CE.If justice be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers? / Augustine of Hippo ; Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you / Muhammad ; The people refuse the rule of virtuous men / Al-Farabi ; No free man shall be imprisoned, except by the law of the land / Barons of King John ; For war to be just, there is required a just cause / Thomas Aquinas ; To live politically means living in accordance with good laws / Giles of Rome ; The Church should devote itself to imitating Christ and give up its secular power / Marsilius of Padua ; Government prevents injustice, other than such as it commits itself / Ibn Khaldun ; A prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honor his word / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Rationality and enlightenment, 1515-1770. In the beginning, everything was common to all / Francisco de Vitoria ; Sovereignty is the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth / Jean Bodin ; The natural law is the foundation of human law / Francisco Suárez ; Politics is the art of associating men / Johannes Althusius ; Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves / Hugo Grotius ; The condition of man is a condition of war / Thomas Hobbes ; The end of law is to preserve and enlarge freedom / John Locke ; When legislative and executive powers are united in the same body, there can be no liberty / Montesquieu ; Independent entrepreneurs make good citizens / Benjamin Franklin --
- Revolutionary thoughts, 1770-1848. To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; No generally valid principle of legislation can be based on happiness / Immanuel Kant ; The passions of individuals should be subjected / Edmund Burke ; Rights dependent on property are the most precarious / Thomas Paine ; All men are created equal / Thomas Jefferson ; Each nationality contains its center of happiness within itself / Johann Gottfried Herder ; Government has but a choice of evils / Jeremy Bentham ; The people have a right to keep and bear arms / James Madison ; The most respectable women are the most oppressed / Mary Wollstonecraft ; The slave feels self-existence to be something external / Georg Hegel ; War is the continuation of Politik by other means / Carl von Clausewitz ; Abolition and the Union cannot coexist / John C. Calhoun ; A state too extensive in itself ultimately falls into decay / Simón Bolívar ; An educated and wise government recognizes the developmental needs of its society / José María Luis Mora ; The tendency to attack "the family" is a symptom of social chaos / Auguste Comte -- The rise of the masses, 1848-1910.Socialism is a new system of serfdom / Alexis de Tocqueville ; Say not I, but we / Giuseppe Mazzini ; That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time / John Stuart Mill ; No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent / Abraham Lincoln ; Property is theft / Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ; The privileged man is a man depraved in intellect and heart / Mikhail Bakunin ; That government is best which governs not at all / Henry David Thoreau ; Communism is the riddle of history solved / Karl Marx ; The men who proclaimed the republic became the assassins of freedom / Alexander Herzen ; We must look for a central axis for our nation / Ito Hirobumi ; The will to power / Friedrich Nietzsche ; It is the myth that is alone important / Georges Sorel ; We have to take working men as they are / Eduard Bernstein ; The disdain of our formidable neighbor is the greatest danger for Latin America / José Martí ; It is necessary to dare in order to succeed / Peter Kropotkin ; Either women are to be killed, or women are to have the vote / Emmeline Pankhurst ; It is ridiculous to deny the existence of a Jewish nation / Theodor Herzl ; Nothing will avail to save a nation whose workers have decayed / Beatrice Webb ; Protective legislation in America is shamefully inadequate / Jane Addams ; Land to the tillers! / Sun Yat-Sen ; The individual is a single cog in an ever-moving mechanism / Max Weber -- The clash of ideologies, 1910-1945. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith / Mahatma Gandhi ; Politics begin where the masses are / Vladimir Lenin ; The mass strike results from social conditions with historical inevitability / Rosa Luxemburg ; An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last / Winston Churchill ; The Fascist conception of the state is all-embracing / Giovanni Gentile ; The wealthy farmers must be deprived of the sources of their existence / Joseph Stalin ; If the end justifies the means, what justifies the end? / Leon Trotsky ; We will unite Mexicans by giving guarantees to the peasant and the businessman / Emiliano Zapata ; War is a racket / Smedley D. Butler ; Sovereignty is not given, it is taken / Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ; Europe has been left without a moral code / José Ortega y Gasset ; We are 400 million people asking for liberty / Marcus Garvey ; India cannot really be free unless separated from the British empire / Manabendra Nath Roy ; Sovereign is he who decides on the exception / Carl Schmitt ; Communism is as bad as imperialism / Jomo Kenyatta ; The state must be conceived of as an "educator" / Antonio Gramsci ; Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun / Mao Zedong -- Postwar politics, 1945-present. The chief evil is unlimited government / Friedrich Hayek ; Parliamentary government and rationalist politics do not belong to the same system / Michael Oakeshott ; The objective of the Islamic jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system / Abul Ala Maududi ; There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men / Ayn Rand ; Every known and established fact can be denied / Hannah Arendt ; What is a woman? / Simone de Beauvoir ; No natural object is solely a resource / Arne Naess ; We are not anti-white, we are against white supremacy / Nelson Mandela ; Only the weak-minded believe that politics is a place of collaboration / Gianfranco Miglio ; During the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed tend to become oppressors / Paulo Freire ; Justice is the first virtue of social institutions / John Rawls ; Colonialism is violence in its natural state / Frantz Fanon ; The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X ; We need to "cut off the king's head" / Michel Foucault ; Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves / Che Guevara ; Everybody has to make sure that the rich folks are happy / Noam Chomsky ; Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance / Martin Luther King ; Perestroika unites socialism with democracy / Mikhail Gorbachev ; The intellectuals erroneously fought Islam / Ali Shariati ; The hellishness of war drives us to break with every restraint / Michael Walzer ; No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified / Robert Nozick ; No Islamic law says violate women's rights / Shirin Ebadi ; Suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation / Robert Pape
- Control code
- ocn795010944
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- 352 p.
- Isbn
- 9781465402141
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover) :
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.)
- Label
- The politics book
- Note
-
- Subtitle from cover
- Includes index
- Contents
-
- Ancient political thought, 800 BCE-30 CE. If your desire is for good, the people will be good / Confucius ; The art of war is of vital importance to the state / Sun Tzu ; Plans for the country are only to be shared with the learned / Mozi ; Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils / Plato ; Man is by nature a political animal / Aristotle ; A single wheel does not move / Chanakya ; If evil ministers enjoy safety and profit, this is the beginning of downfall / Han Fei Tzu ; The government is bandied about like a ball / Cicero -- Medieval politics, 30 CE-1515 CE.If justice be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers? / Augustine of Hippo ; Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you / Muhammad ; The people refuse the rule of virtuous men / Al-Farabi ; No free man shall be imprisoned, except by the law of the land / Barons of King John ; For war to be just, there is required a just cause / Thomas Aquinas ; To live politically means living in accordance with good laws / Giles of Rome ; The Church should devote itself to imitating Christ and give up its secular power / Marsilius of Padua ; Government prevents injustice, other than such as it commits itself / Ibn Khaldun ; A prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honor his word / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Rationality and enlightenment, 1515-1770. In the beginning, everything was common to all / Francisco de Vitoria ; Sovereignty is the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth / Jean Bodin ; The natural law is the foundation of human law / Francisco Suárez ; Politics is the art of associating men / Johannes Althusius ; Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves / Hugo Grotius ; The condition of man is a condition of war / Thomas Hobbes ; The end of law is to preserve and enlarge freedom / John Locke ; When legislative and executive powers are united in the same body, there can be no liberty / Montesquieu ; Independent entrepreneurs make good citizens / Benjamin Franklin --
- Revolutionary thoughts, 1770-1848. To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; No generally valid principle of legislation can be based on happiness / Immanuel Kant ; The passions of individuals should be subjected / Edmund Burke ; Rights dependent on property are the most precarious / Thomas Paine ; All men are created equal / Thomas Jefferson ; Each nationality contains its center of happiness within itself / Johann Gottfried Herder ; Government has but a choice of evils / Jeremy Bentham ; The people have a right to keep and bear arms / James Madison ; The most respectable women are the most oppressed / Mary Wollstonecraft ; The slave feels self-existence to be something external / Georg Hegel ; War is the continuation of Politik by other means / Carl von Clausewitz ; Abolition and the Union cannot coexist / John C. Calhoun ; A state too extensive in itself ultimately falls into decay / Simón Bolívar ; An educated and wise government recognizes the developmental needs of its society / José María Luis Mora ; The tendency to attack "the family" is a symptom of social chaos / Auguste Comte -- The rise of the masses, 1848-1910.Socialism is a new system of serfdom / Alexis de Tocqueville ; Say not I, but we / Giuseppe Mazzini ; That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time / John Stuart Mill ; No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent / Abraham Lincoln ; Property is theft / Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ; The privileged man is a man depraved in intellect and heart / Mikhail Bakunin ; That government is best which governs not at all / Henry David Thoreau ; Communism is the riddle of history solved / Karl Marx ; The men who proclaimed the republic became the assassins of freedom / Alexander Herzen ; We must look for a central axis for our nation / Ito Hirobumi ; The will to power / Friedrich Nietzsche ; It is the myth that is alone important / Georges Sorel ; We have to take working men as they are / Eduard Bernstein ; The disdain of our formidable neighbor is the greatest danger for Latin America / José Martí ; It is necessary to dare in order to succeed / Peter Kropotkin ; Either women are to be killed, or women are to have the vote / Emmeline Pankhurst ; It is ridiculous to deny the existence of a Jewish nation / Theodor Herzl ; Nothing will avail to save a nation whose workers have decayed / Beatrice Webb ; Protective legislation in America is shamefully inadequate / Jane Addams ; Land to the tillers! / Sun Yat-Sen ; The individual is a single cog in an ever-moving mechanism / Max Weber -- The clash of ideologies, 1910-1945. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith / Mahatma Gandhi ; Politics begin where the masses are / Vladimir Lenin ; The mass strike results from social conditions with historical inevitability / Rosa Luxemburg ; An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last / Winston Churchill ; The Fascist conception of the state is all-embracing / Giovanni Gentile ; The wealthy farmers must be deprived of the sources of their existence / Joseph Stalin ; If the end justifies the means, what justifies the end? / Leon Trotsky ; We will unite Mexicans by giving guarantees to the peasant and the businessman / Emiliano Zapata ; War is a racket / Smedley D. Butler ; Sovereignty is not given, it is taken / Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ; Europe has been left without a moral code / José Ortega y Gasset ; We are 400 million people asking for liberty / Marcus Garvey ; India cannot really be free unless separated from the British empire / Manabendra Nath Roy ; Sovereign is he who decides on the exception / Carl Schmitt ; Communism is as bad as imperialism / Jomo Kenyatta ; The state must be conceived of as an "educator" / Antonio Gramsci ; Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun / Mao Zedong -- Postwar politics, 1945-present. The chief evil is unlimited government / Friedrich Hayek ; Parliamentary government and rationalist politics do not belong to the same system / Michael Oakeshott ; The objective of the Islamic jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system / Abul Ala Maududi ; There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men / Ayn Rand ; Every known and established fact can be denied / Hannah Arendt ; What is a woman? / Simone de Beauvoir ; No natural object is solely a resource / Arne Naess ; We are not anti-white, we are against white supremacy / Nelson Mandela ; Only the weak-minded believe that politics is a place of collaboration / Gianfranco Miglio ; During the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed tend to become oppressors / Paulo Freire ; Justice is the first virtue of social institutions / John Rawls ; Colonialism is violence in its natural state / Frantz Fanon ; The ballot or the bullet / Malcolm X ; We need to "cut off the king's head" / Michel Foucault ; Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves / Che Guevara ; Everybody has to make sure that the rich folks are happy / Noam Chomsky ; Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance / Martin Luther King ; Perestroika unites socialism with democracy / Mikhail Gorbachev ; The intellectuals erroneously fought Islam / Ali Shariati ; The hellishness of war drives us to break with every restraint / Michael Walzer ; No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified / Robert Nozick ; No Islamic law says violate women's rights / Shirin Ebadi ; Suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation / Robert Pape
- Control code
- ocn795010944
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- 352 p.
- Isbn
- 9781465402141
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- (hardcover) :
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.)
Subject
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
- Althusius, Johannes, 1557-1638
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975
- Aristotle
- Atatürk, Kemal, 1881-1938
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
- Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, 1814-1876
- Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986
- Bentham, Jeremy, 1748-1832
- Bernstein, Eduard, 1850-1932
- Bodin, Jean, 1530-1596
- Bolívar, Simón, 1783-1830
- Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
- Butler, Smedley D., (Smedley Darlington), 1881-1940
- Calhoun, John C., (John Caldwell), 1782-1850
- Chomsky, Noam
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Clausewitz, Carl von, 1780-1831
- Comte, Auguste, 1798-1857
- Confucius
- Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
- Freire, Paulo, 1921-1997
- Fārābī
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
- Gentile, Giovanni, 1875-1944
- Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316
- Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-
- Gramsci, Antonio, 1891-1937
- Grotius, Hugo, 1583-1645
- Guevara, Che, 1928-1967
- Han, Fei, -233 B.C
- Hayek, Friedrich A. von, (Friedrich August), 1899-1992
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831
- Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803
- Herzen, Aleksandr, 1812-1870
- Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
- Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1406
- Itō, Hirobumi, 1841-1909
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
- Kauṭalya
- Kenyatta, Jomo
- King, Martin Luther, Jr, 1929-1968
- Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kni͡azʹ, 1842-1921
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Locke, John, 1632-1704
- Luxemburg, Rosa, 1871-1919
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527
- Madison, James, 1751-1836
- Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013
- Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
- Marsilius, of Padua, -1342?
- Martí, José, 1853-1895
- Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
- Maudoodi, Syed Abul ʻAla, 1903-1979
- Mazzini, Giuseppe, 1805-1872
- Miglio, Gianfranco
- Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873
- Mo, Di, active 400 B.C
- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de, 1689-1755
- Mora, José María Luis, 1794-1850
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632
- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
- Nozick, Robert S
- Næss, Arne
- Oakeshott, Michael, 1901-1990
- Ortega y Gasset, José, 1883-1955
- Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
- Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928
- Pape, Robert Anthony, 1960-
- Plato
- Political science
- Political science -- History
- Proudhon, P.-J., (Pierre-Joseph), 1809-1865
- Rand, Ayn
- Rawls, John, 1921-2002
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
- Roy, M. N., (Manabendra Nath), 1887-1954
- Schmitt, Carl, 1888-1985
- Sharīʻatī, ʻAlī
- Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922
- Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
- Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925
- Sunzi, active 6th century B.C
- Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859
- Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940
- Vitoria, Francisco de, 1486?-1546
- Walzer, Michael
- Webb, Beatrice, 1858-1943
- Weber, Max, 1864-1920
- Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
- World politics
- X, Malcolm, 1925-1965
- Zapata, Emiliano, 1879-1919
- ʻIbādī, Shīrīn
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