“The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.”
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Polish philosopher and sociologist 1925–2017Related quotes
“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.”
Denis Waitley (1933) American writer
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Agathon (-448–-401 BC) Athenian tragic poet
Stobaeus, Florilegium, XL, VI, 24, as reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of Quotations (1897), p. 515.
Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) Pan Africanist and First Prime Minister and President of Ghana
The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
Adam Przeworski (1940) Polish-American academic
Adam Przeworski (1991) Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe, p. 26
“Markowitz's main interest is prescription of rules of rational behaviour for investors;”
James Tobin (1918–2002) American economist
Tobin, James. " Liquidity preference as behavior towards risk http://web.uconn.edu/ahking/Tobin58.pdf." The review of economic studies (1958): 65-86. <br class="br">1950s-60s <br class="br">Context: A forthcoming book by Harry Markowitz, Techniques of Portfolio Selection, will treat the general problem of finding dominant sets and computing the corresponding opportunity locus, for sets of securities all of which involve risk. Markowitz's main interest is prescription of rules of rational behaviour for investors; the main concern of this paper is the implications for economic theory, mainly comparative statics, that can be derived from assuming that investors do in fact follow such rules.
William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) American newspaper publisher
N.Y. Journal-American (November 11, 1954)
Max Weber book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
This tendency has not been observed in the same way in the present or the past among Catholics, regardless of whether they were the dominant or dominated stratum or constituted a majority or minority. Therefore the cause of the different behavior must be mainly sought in the enduring inner quality of these religions and not only in their respective historical-political external situations.
Source: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905; 1920), Ch. 1 : Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification
