The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
For I am certain, O men of Athens, that if I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago and done no good either to you or to myself.
There will be no injustice in compelling our philosophers to have a care and providence of others; we shall explain to them that in other States, men of their class are not obligated to share in the toils of politics: and this is reasonable, for they grow up at their own sweet will, and the government would rather not have them.
The student of politics must study the soul.
The of is one half of a single treatise of which his Politics is the other half. Both deal with one and the same subject. This subject is what calls in one place the “philosophy of human affairs;” but more frequently Political or Social Science.
As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.
His [Francisco Goya’s] debt to the Christianity of the eighteenth century is contained in the idea that politics was just adopting from the gospels: the conviction that man has a right to justice. Such a statement would seem utterly conceited to a Roman, who would doubtless have looked upon the disasters as we look upon photographs of the amphitheatre. But if Goya thought that man has not come onto the earth to be cut to pieces he thought that he must have come here for something. Is it to live in joy and honour? Not only that; it is to come to terms with the world. And the message he never ceased to preach, a message underlined by war, is that man only comes to terms with the world by blinding himself with childishness.
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In spite of the fundamental importance of economic facts in determining politics and beliefs of an age or nation, I do not think that non-economic factors can be neglected without risks of error which may be fatal in practice.
With subjectivism in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand.