7346 | Jeremiah implied a link between weakness and goodness, and the evil of the state [Jeremiah, by Johnson,P] |
137 | As with other things, a good state is organised and orderly [Plato] |
19890 | All exchanges in a community are for mutual benefit [Plato] |
5140 | Political science aims at the highest good, which involves creating virtue in citizens [Aristotle] |
86 | A bad political constitution (especially a tyranny) makes friendship almost impossible [Aristotle] |
23915 | The main function of politics is to produce friendship [Aristotle] |
2431 | Every state is an association formed for some good purpose [Aristotle] |
22548 | A city aims at living well [Aristotle] |
22577 | What is the best life for everyone, and is that a communal or an individual problem? [Aristotle] |
22578 | The happiest city is the one that acts most nobly [Aristotle] |
22579 | The same four cardinal virtues which apply to individuals also apply to a city [Aristotle] |
7487 | Society exists to extend human awareness [Spinoza, by Watson] |
19943 | The state aims to allow personal development, so its main purpose is freedom [Spinoza] |
19863 | Politics is the right to make enforceable laws to protect property and the state, for the common good [Locke] |
19995 | All states aim at preservation, and then have distinctive individual purposes [Montesquieu] |
3921 | The safety of the people is the supreme law [Hume] |
21096 | The only purpose of government is to administer justice, which brings security [Hume] |
19816 | A state's purpose is liberty and equality - liberty for strength, and equality for liberty [Rousseau] |
7247 | The greatest social good comes down to freedom and equality [Rousseau] |
19838 | The measure of a successful state is increase in its population [Rousseau] |
19855 | The purpose of society is to protect the rights of liberty, property, security and resistance [Mirabeau/committee] |
7542 | The best form of government teaches us to govern ourselves [Goethe] |
22767 | I aim to portray the state as a rational entity [Hegel] |
22789 | Society draws people, and requires their work, making them wholly dependent on it [Hegel] |
22791 | The state is the march of God in the world [Hegel] |
21485 | The state only exists to defend citizens, from exterior threats, and from one another [Schopenhauer] |
23203 | The great question is approaching, of how to govern the earth as a whole [Nietzsche] |
14838 | The state aims to protect individuals from one another [Nietzsche] |
20367 | Individual development is more important than the state, but a community is necessary [Nietzsche] |
23157 | Government has a negative purpose, to prevent trouble, and a positive aim of realising our desires [Russell] |
20937 | The state should produce higher civilisations for all, in tune with the economic apparatus [Gramsci] |
20491 | States have a monopoly of legitimate violence [Sartre, by Wolff,J] |
15043 | Every society has a politics of truth, concerning its values, functions, prestige and mechanisms [Foucault] |
18643 | A minimal state should protect, but a state forcing us to do more is unjustified [Nozick] |
23114 | The chief function of the state is to arbitrate between contending visions of the good life [Kekes] |
20164 | The ideal of an ideology is embodied in a text, a role model, a law of history, a dream of the past... [Kekes] |
20163 | Ideologies have beliefs about reality, ideals, a gap with actuality, and a program [Kekes] |
9311 | We have achieved a sort of utopia, and it is boring, so that is the end of utopias [Svendsen] |
20674 | The Nazi aim was to encourage progressive evolution, and avoid degeneration [Harari] |