Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) Political scientist
p, 125
War and Change in World Politics (1981)
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
Robert Gilpin (1930–2018) Political scientist
p, 125
War and Change in World Politics (1981)
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (1879–1973) Tamil politician and social reformer
Quoted in “Collected works of Periyar E.V.R.”, p. 54.
Society
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
Alain Badiou (1937) French writer and philosopher
From Can Change Be Thought? A Dialogue with Alain Badiou by Bruno Bosteels, in Alain Badiou: Philosophy And Its Conditions, edited by Gabriel Riera. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. ISBN 0791465047.
“The capitalist state exists to ensure the domination of one class over another.”
Eric Wolf (1923–1999) American anthropologist
Source: Europe and the People Without History, 1982, Chapter 10, Crises and Differentiation in Capitalism, p. 308.
Antonio Negri book Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
94
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 7
Context: Perhaps he would never have dared to raise his eyes, but that, though the piping was now hushed, the call and the summons seemed still dominant and imperious. He might not refuse, were Death himself waiting to strike him instantly, once he had looked with mortal eye on things rightly kept hidden. Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fullness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter. All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.
“Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.”
Herbert Marcuse book One-Dimensional Man
Source: One-Dimensional Man (1964), p. 65
Robert Hughes (1938–2012) Australian critic, historian, writer
"Introduction: The Decline of the City of Mahagonny"
Nothing If Not Critical (1991)
Michael Foot (1913–2010) British politician
Speech to the House of Commons (Hansard, 20 January 1976, Col. 1126)
1970s