Quotes tagged ‘Political Theory’

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“Jennifer Jareau: Economics, philosophy, political theory. Not exactly breezy, take-to-the-beach reading. Dr. Spencer Reid: I would, but I don't really like the beach. Jennifer Jareau: Why is that? Dr. Spencer Reid: Sandy food, pink skin, limited and unengaging topography, but mostly drug-resistant b…”

— Virgil Williams, Jennifer Jareau, A. J. Cook, imdb.com

“Naked greed has been the moving spirit of civilization from the first day of its existence to the present time; wealth, more wealth, and wealth again; wealth not of society, but of this shabby individual was its sole and determining aim.”

— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com

“Marx grasped this essence of capitalist democracy splendidly when, in analyzing the experience of the Commune, he said that the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!”

— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org

“Once we have overthrown the capitalists, crushed the resistance of these exploiters with the iron hand of the armed workers, and smashed the bureaucratic machinery of the modern state, we shall have a splendidly-equipped mechanism, freed from the ‘parasite’, a mechanism which can very well be set go…”

— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org

“The petty-bourgeois democrats, such as our Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, and also their twin brothers, all the social-chauvinists and opportunists of Western Europe, expect just this ‘more’ from universal suffrage. They themselves share, and instil into the minds of the people, the false…”

— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org

“Shakespeare was never an anarchist; and when he studies the problem of power, he does not suggest that it can be solved by abolition. His solution is an aristocracy of the spirit; his qualifications for rulership are self-realisation, forgiveness and love; and his ideal is a philosopher, or perhaps…”

— John Vyvyan, amazon.com