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CONTENTS of The Politics Book – Big Ideas Simply Explained
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, honour 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 centre 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 co-exist • 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 neighbour 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
- Non-violence 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
POST-WAR 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 folk 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
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