POLITICAL QUOTES

-"No man is good enough to govern another without their consent"    -Abraham Lincoln

- “The reason why man is a social being, more than any bee and any gregarious animal is clear, because nature does nothing in vain. Only man, among the other animals, has the word (...) This exists to show what is convenient and what is harmful; what is fair and what is unfair. And this is what s typical from humans and differentiate them from other animals: possess, exclusively, the sense of what is good and what is bad, what is fair and what is unfair”    -Aristotle, Politics

- “Roman’s idiome -perhaps the most political village that we have known- used the expressions “life” and “be among men” or “die” and “stop being among men” as synonymous”    -Hannah Arendt, Human condition

- “Nature has made man good and happy, but the society corrupts him and makes him miserable”    -J.J. Rousseau (French philosopher)

-“From the fundaments of the State we deduce that its ultimate purpose is not to dominate men or shut them out of fear, but rather, to release them from fear to living surely, that is, in order to retain the right to have a natural existence. I repeat that the objective of the State is not to transform men from rational being to brutes and automatons, but their spirit and their body develop in all their functions and make free use of reason without hatred, anger or Rousseau do not allow that unfair wars . The real objective of the State is, therefore, the Liberty”    -B.Spinoza, Logical-political treaty

-“Pleasure which Government provide with has to be very big, because there are so may who aspire to do it”   -Voltaire

-“The greatest danger of the Governments is want to govern too”   -Count Mirabeau (French politician, writer and orator)

-“There are very few men who are so foolish and prefer not to govern themselves before being governed by others.     -Hobbes (English philosopher)

-"To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied, legislated, regulated, indoctrinated, censured, commanded by beings who have neither title nor science nor virtue. Being governed means, in each operation, in each transaction, to be recorded, census, quoted, authorized, admonished, corrected. Under the pretext of public utility and on behalf of general interest, is to be exploited, monopolized, stolen; then, at the slightest resistance, at the first word of complaint, repressed, fined, humiliated, harass, beaten, imprisoned, shoot, machine-gunned, tried, convicted, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and on, mocked, scorned, dishonored. Here you have the Government, its morality and its justice!”                 -Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the XIXth century