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In conceiving of the state as a generational compact, de Gaulle was echoing Edmund Burke, who defined society as ‘a partnership . . . between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.’[69]
Henry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
trust. Every presidential statement,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Herbert Spencer, dans un travail déjà ancien, avait montré que l'accroissement de la liberté apparente devait être suivi d'une diminution de la liberté réelle. Reprenant la même thèse dans son livre récent, l'Individu contre l'État,
Gustave Le Bon • Psychologie des Foules
Philosophers David Hume and William James both understood the smallness of the individual human mind compared to the vast expanse of nature and society, and they emphasized the irrationalities of the human mind when facing the daily problems put before us. If we are building principles for politics, we need approaches which are relatively fortified
... See moreRicardo held it in opposition to landowners, Marx to capitalists. But Locke seems to have held it in a vacuum, without hostility to any class. His only hostility is to monarchs, but this is unconnected with his views on value.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Polybius on the politics of Rome
Mary Beard • SPQR
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
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