Table of Contents
Introduction 10
Ancient Political Thought: 800 BCE-30 CE
If your desire is for good, the people will be good: Confucius 20
The art of war is of vital importance to the state 28
Plans for the country are only to be shared with the learned 32
Unitl philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evil: Plato 34
Man is by nature a political animal: Aristotle 40
A single wheel does not move: Chanakya 44
If evil ministers enjoy safety and profit, this is the beginning of downfall 48
The government is bandied about like a ball: Cicero 49
Medieval Politics: 30 CE-1515 CS
If justice be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers?: Augustine of Hippo 54
Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you: Muhammad 56
The people refuse the rule of virtuous men: Ai-Farabi 58
No free man shall be imprisoned, except by the law of the land: Barons of King John 60
For war to be just, there is required a required a just cause: Thomas Aquinas 62
To live politically means living in accordance with good laws: Giles of Rome 70
The Church should devote itself to imitating Christ and give up its secular power: Marsilius of Padua 71
Government prevents injustice, other than such as it commits itself 72
A prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honor his word 74
Rationality and Englightenment: 1515-1770
In the beginning, everything was common to all 86
Sovereignty is the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth 88
The natural law is the foundation of human law 90
Politics is the art of associating men 92
Liberty is the power the we have over ourselves 94
The condition of man is a condition of war 96
The end of law is to preserve and enlarge freedom 104
When legislative and executive powers are united in the same body, there can be no liberty: Montesquieu 110
Independent entrepreneurs make good citizens 112
Revolutionary Thoughts: 1770-1848
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man 118
No generally valid principle of legislation can be based on happiness 126
The passions of individual should be subjected 130
Rights dependent on property are the most precarious 134
All men are created equal 140
Each nationality contains its center of happiness within itself 142
Government has but a choice of evils 144
The people have a right to keep and bear arms 150
The most respectable women are the most oppressed 154
The slave feels self-existence to be something external 156
War is the continuation of Politik by other means 160
Abolition and the Union cannot coexist 161
A state too extensive in itself ultimately falls into decay 162
An educated and wise government recognizes the developmental needs of its society 164
The tendency to attack "the family" is a symptom of social chaos: Auguste Comte 165
The Rise of the Masses: 1848-1910
Socialism is a new system of serfdom 170
Say not I, but we 172
That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time 174
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent 182
Property is theft 183
The privileged man is a man depraved in intellect and heart 184
That government is best which governs not at all 186
Communism is the riddle of history solved 188
The men who proclaimed the republic became the assassins of freedom 194
We must look for a central axis for our nation 195
The will to power 196
It is the myth that is alone important 200
We have to take working men as they are 202
The disdain of our formidable neighbor is the greatest danger for Latin America 204
It is necessary to dare in order to succeed 206
Either women are to be killed, or women are to have the vote 207
It is ridiculous to deny the existence of a Jewish nation 208
Noting will avail to save a nation whose workers have decayed 210
Protective legislation in America is shamefully inadequate 211
Land to the tillers! 212
The individual is a single cog in an ever-moving mechanism 214
The Clash of Ideologies: 1910-1945
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith 220
Politics begin where the masses are 226
The mass strike results from social consitions with historical inevitability 234
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last 236
The Fascist conception of the state is all-embracing 238
The wealthy farmers must be deprived of the sources of their existence 240
If the end justifies the means, what justifies the end? 242
We will unite Mexicans by giving guarantees to the peasant and the businessman 246
War is a racket 247
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken 248
Europe has been left without a moral code 250
We are 400 million people asking for liberty 252
India cannot really be free unless separated from the British empire 253
Sovereign is he who decides on the exception 254
Communism is as bad as imperialism 258
The state must be conceived of as an "educator" 259
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun 260
Postwar Politics: 1945-Present
The chief evil is unlimited government 270
Parliamentary government and rationalist politics do not belong to the same system 276
The objective of the Islamic jihad is to eliminate the rule of an un-Islamic system 278
There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men 280
Every known and established fact can be denited 282
What is a woman? 284
No natural object is solely a resource 290
We are not anti-white, we are against white supremacy 294
Only the weak-minded believe that politics in a place of collaboration 296
During the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed ten to become oppressors 297
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions 298
Colonialism is violence in its natural state 304
The ballot or the bullet 308
We need to "cut off the king's head" 310
Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves 312
Everybody has to make sure that the rich folks are happy 314
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance 316
Perestroika unites socialism with democracy 322
The intellectuals erroneously fought Islam 323
The hellishness of war drives us to reak with every restraint 324
No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified 326
No Islamic law says violate women's rights 328
Suicide terrorism is mainly a response to foreign occupation 329
Directory 330
Glossary 340
Index 344
Acknowledgments 351
