Political Theory Quotes

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." "Democracy is the road to socialism." "The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas" "The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class" "The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property" "More socialism means more democracy, openness, and collectivism in everyday life." "Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement" "Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse" "The condition of man is a condition of war of everyone against everyone" "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it" "In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority" "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition" "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one" "The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms" "Government has no other end but the preservation of property" "The problem to be solved is not what form of government is perfect but which of the forms is least imperfect" "Liberalism is not about creating wealth. Liberalism is about redistributing wealth." "The revolution is not the climax of historical evolution but a conspiracy against it"