Political Theorists Quotes

#1. Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive.

James Bovard

#2. A colleague once described political theorists as people who were obsessed with two dozen books; after half a century of grappling with Mill's essay On Liberty, or Hobbes's Leviathan, I have sometimes thought two dozen might be a little on the high side.

Alan Ryan

#3. Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf are instinctively smarter about this than a good many human political theorists.

Eric S. Raymond

#4. It must always remain the great curiosity of history - a whim, a fantasy, an apparition, a thing unexpected and undreamed; and it should serve as a warning to those rash political theorists of to-day who speak with certitude of social processes. Capitalism

Jack London

#5. As I've always said: The future lies ahead.

Pat Paulsen

#6. To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I've got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she's a lovely mare.

Michael Owen

#7. Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

Star Jones

#9. A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

John Avlon

#10. Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Ludwig Von Mises

#11. When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

Kalup Linzy

#12. A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#13. Intelligent people while impulsive, worth less than one stone on the path

Miguel El Portugues