Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Source: The Subversion of Christianity (1984), p. 113
Christian Anarchy: Jesus’ Primacy Over the Powers (1987)
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarchist
Source: The Subversion of Christianity (1984), p. 113
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited
Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 7 (p. 63)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1900s, Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)
Context: You often hear people speaking as if life was like striving upward toward a mountain peak. That is not so. Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other. It shall profit us nothing if our people are decent and ineffective. It shall profit us nothing if they are efficient and wicked. In every walk of life, in business, politics; if the need comes, in war; in literature, science, art, in everything, what we need is a sufficient number of men who can work well and who will work with a high ideal. The work can be done in a thousand different ways. Our public life depends primarily not upon the men who occupy public positions for the moment, because they are but an infinitesimal fraction of the whole. Our public life depends upon men who take an active interest in that public life; who are bound to see public affairs honestly and competently managed; but who have the good sense to know what honesty and competency actually mean. And any such man, if he is both sane and high-minded, can be a greater help and strength to any one in public life than you can easily imagine without having had yourselves the experience. It is an immense strength to a public man to know a certain number of people to whom he can appeal for advice and for backing; whose character is so high that baseness would shrink ashamed before them; and who have such good sense that any decent public servant is entirely willing to lay before them every detail of his actions, asking only that they know the facts before they pass final judgment.
Robert LeFevre (1911–1986) American libertarian businessman
Rampart Institute, p.411
The Fundamental of Liberty (1988)
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) American journalist
2010s, 2011, Are we alone in the universe? (2011)
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
(zh-CN) “战争是政治的继续”,在这点上说,战争就是政治,战争本身就是政治性质的行动,从古以来没有不带政治性的战争。
1930s, On Protracted Warfare (1938)
Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician
Chap. V, The Period of Dictatorship <br class="br">"Hitlerism and Social Democracy" (1934) https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1934/hitler/index.htm
Brian Leiter (1963) American philosopher and legal scholar
"The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud"
Raymond Geuss book Philosophy and Real Politics
Philosophy and Real Politics (2008).
Philosophy and Real Politics (2008)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1964 Memorial Edition, p. 265 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations/Profiles-in-Courage-quotations.aspx <br class="br">Pre-1960, Profiles in Courage (1956)