Hans J Morgenthau Sayings

#1. So there's an ... an etiquette to raking. Some seducer's code of honor. Is this what you're telling me?

Tessa Dare

#2. Man will not live without answers to his questions.

Hans Morgenthau

#3. When we speak of power, we mean man's control over the minds and actions of other men. By political power we refer to the mutual relations of control among the holders of public authority and between the latter and the people at large.

Hans J. Morgenthau

#4. The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

Thomas Paine

#5. Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.

Janey Colbourne

#6. International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power

Hans J. Morgenthau

#7. What is is and what isn't ain't.

Werner Erhard

#8. I'm not a stereotypical professor type. I don't smoke a pipe and wear a tweedy jacket. I'm more like a student who stayed at the university for so long that they gave him a job to keep him out of trouble.

Patrick Rothfuss

#9. Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.

Hans Morgenthau

#10. The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil.

Hans Morgenthau

#11. Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman

Hans J. Morgenthau

#12. Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.

Hans Morgenthau

#13. You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it.

James Alan Gardner

#14. Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

Hans Morgenthau

#15. Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.

Hans Morgenthau

#16. The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

Ivy Compton-Burnett