24 ideas
21495 | Theoretical and practical politics are both concerned with the best lives for individuals [Russell] |
21517 | Individuals need creativity, reverence for others, and self-respect [Russell] |
21523 | We would not want UK affairs to be settled by a world parliament [Russell] |
23429 | The environment needs localised politics, with its care for the land [Dobson] |
21522 | Democracy is inadequate without a great deal of devolution [Russell] |
23424 | An ideology judges things now, and offers an ideal, with a strategy for reaching it [Dobson] |
21521 | Anarchy does not maximise liberty [Russell] |
21528 | Groups should be autonomous, with a neutral authority as arbitrator [Russell] |
21527 | On every new question the majority is always wrong at first [Russell] |
21526 | Unfortunately ordinary voters can't detect insincerity [Russell] |
23426 | Ecologism is often non-liberal, by claiming to know other people's best interests [Dobson] |
21525 | When the state is the only employer, there is no refuge from the prejudices of other people [Russell] |
23427 | Socialism can be productive and centralised, or less productive and decentralised [Dobson] |
21518 | Men unite in pursuit of material things, and idealise greed as part of group loyalty [Russell] |
23428 | Difference feminists say women differ fundamentally from men [Dobson] |
23422 | For the environment, affluence and technology matter as much as population size [Dobson] |
23425 | Ecologism says growth must be reduced, and efficiency is not enough [Dobson] |
23423 | We currently value the present fourteen times more highly than the future [Dobson] |
23430 | A million years is a proper unit of political time [Dobson] |
21519 | We need security and liberty, and then encouragement of creativity [Russell] |
21524 | The right to own land gives a legal right to a permanent income [Russell] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
21520 | That our heaven is a dull place reflects the misery of excessive work in life [Russell] |