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The Politics Book.

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Includes index.
Ancient political thought, 800 BCE-30 CE. If your desire is for good, the people will be good / Confucius ; The art of war is of vital importance to the state / Sun Tzu ; Plans for the country are only to be shared with the learned / Mozi ; Until philosophers are kings, cities will never have rest from their evils / Plato ; Man is by nature a political animal / Aristotle ; A single wheel does not move / Chanakya ; If evil ministers enjoy safety and profit, this is the beginning of downfall / Han Fei Tzu ; The government is bandied about like a ball / Cicero -- Medieval politics, 30 CE-1515 CE.If justice be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers? / Augustine of Hippo ; Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you / Muhammad ; The people refuse the rule of virtuous men / Al-Farabi ; No free man shall be imprisoned, except by the law of the land / Barons of King John ; For war to be just, there is required a just cause / Thomas Aquinas ; To live politically means living in accordance with good laws / Giles of Rome ; The Church should devote itself to imitating Christ and give up its secular power / Marsilius of Padua ; Government prevents injustice, other than such as it commits itself / Ibn Khaldun ; A prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honor his word / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Rationality and enlightenment, 1515-1770. In the beginning, everything was common to all / Francisco de Vitoria ; Sovereignty is the absolute and perpetual power of a commonwealth / Jean Bodin ; The natural law is the foundation of human law / Francisco Suárez ; Politics is the art of associating men / Johannes Althusius ; Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves / Hugo Grotius ; The condition of man is a condition of war / Thomas Hobbes ; The end of law is to preserve and enlarge freedom / John Locke ; When legislative and executive powers are united in the same body, there can be no liberty / Montesquieu ; Independent entrepreneurs make good citizens / Benjamin Franklin --
Revolutionary thoughts, 1770-1848. To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man / Jean-Jacques Rousseau ; No generally valid principle of legislation can be based on happiness / Immanuel Kant ; The passions of individuals should be subjected / Edmund Burke ; Rights dependent on property are the most precarious / Thomas Paine ; All men are created equal / Thomas Jefferson ; Each nationality contains its center of happiness within itself / Johann Gottfried Herder ; Government has but a choice of evils / Jeremy Bentham ; The people have a right to keep and bear arms / James Madison ; The most respectable women are the most oppressed / Mary Wollstonecraft ; The slave feels self-existence to be something external / Georg Hegel ; War is the continuation of Politik by other means / Carl von Clausewitz ; Abolition and the Union cannot coexist / John C. Calhoun ; A state too extensive in itself ultimately falls into decay / Simón Bolívar ; An educated and wise government recognizes the developmental needs of its society / José María Luis Mora ; The tendency to attack "the family" is a symptom of social chaos / Auguste Comte -- The rise of the masses, 1848-1910.Socialism is a new system of serfdom / Alexis de Tocqueville ; Say not I, but we / Giuseppe Mazzini ; That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time / John Stuart Mill ; No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent / Abraham Lincoln ; Property is theft / Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ; The privileged man is a man depraved in intellect and heart / Mikhail Bakunin ; That government is best which governs not at all / Henry David Thoreau ; Communism is the riddle of history solved / Karl Marx ; The men who proclaimed the republic became the assassins of freedom / Alexander Herzen ; We must look for a central axis for our nation / Ito Hirobumi ; The will to power / Friedrich Nietzsche ; It is the myth that is alone important / Georges Sorel ; We have to take working men as they are / Eduard Bernstein ; The disdain of our formidable neighbor is the greatest danger for Latin America / José Martí ; It is necessary to dare in order to succeed / Peter Kropotkin ; Either women are to be killed, or women are to have the vote / Emmeline Pankhurst ; It is ridiculous to deny the existence of a Jewish nation / Theodor Herzl ; Nothing will avail to save a nation whose workers have decayed / Beatrice Webb ; Protective legislation in America is shamefully inadequate / Jane Addams ; Land to the tillers! / Sun Yat-Sen ; The individual is a single cog in an ever-moving mechanism / Max Weber -- The clash of ideologies, 1910-1945. Nonviolence is the first article of my faith / Mahatma Gandhi ; Politics begin where the masses are / Vladimir Lenin ; The mass strike results from social conditions with historical inevitability / Rosa Luxemburg ; An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last / Winston Churchill ; The Fascist conception of the state is all-embracing / Giovanni Gentile ; The wealthy farmers must be deprived of the sources of their existence / Joseph Stalin ; If the end justifies the means, what justifies the end? / Leon Trotsky ; We will unite Mexicans by giving guarantees to the peasant and the businessman / Emiliano Zapata ; War is a racket / Smedley D. Butler ; Sovereignty is not given, it is taken / Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ; Europe has been left without a moral code / José Ortega y Gasset ; We are 400 million people asking for liberty / Marcus Garvey ; India cannot really be free unless separated from the British empire / Manabendra Nath Roy ; Sovereign is he who decides on the exception / Carl Schmitt ; Communism is as bad as imperialism / Jomo Kenyatta ; The state must be conceived of as an "educator" / Antonio Gramsci ; Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun / Mao Zedong -- Postwar politics, 1945-present. The chief evil is unlimited government / Friedrich Hayek ; Parliamentary government and rational.
"Exploring more than 100 big ideas on topics as diverse as the rule of law, the extent of liberty, and the justification of warfare, [this book] takes you on a journey through the history of politics, from the influential theories of ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia to modern concepts voiced by today's brightest political thinkers."--Front jacket flap.

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PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : DK Pub., 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 352 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781465402141
1465402144

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
DK Publishing, Inc.

SUBJECTS
Confucius.
Sunzi, -- active 6th century B.C.
Mo, Di, -- active 400 B.C.
Plato.
Aristotle.
Kauṭalya.
Han, Fei, -- -233 B.C.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius.
Augustine, -- Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Muḥammad, -- Prophet, -- -632.000.
Fārābī.
Thomas, -- Aquinas, Saint, -- 1225?-1274.
Giles, -- of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, -- approximately 1243-1316.
Marsilius, -- of Padua, -- -1342?
Ibn Khaldūn, -- 1332-1406.
Machiavelli, Niccolò, -- 1469-1527.
Vitoria, Francisco de, -- 1486?-1546.
Bodin, Jean, -- 1530-1596.
Suárez, Francisco, -- 1548-1617.
Althusius, Johannes, -- 1557-1638.
Grotius, Hugo, -- 1583-1645.
Hobbes, Thomas, -- 1588-1679.
Locke, John, -- 1632-1704.
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, -- baron de, -- 1689-1755.
Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, -- 1712-1778.
Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804.
Burke, Edmund, -- 1729-1797.
Paine, Thomas, -- 1737-1809.
Jefferson, Thomas, -- 1743-1826.
Herder, Johann Gottfried, -- 1744-1803.
Bentham, Jeremy, -- 1748-1832.
Madison, James, -- 1751-1836.
Wollstonecraft, Mary, -- 1759-1797.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, -- 1770-1831.
Clausewitz, Carl von, -- 1780-1831.
Calhoun, John C. -- 1782-1850.
Bolívar, Simón, -- 1783-1830.
Mora, José María Luis, -- 1794-1850.
Comte, Auguste, -- 1798-1857.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, -- 1805-1859.
Mazzini, Giuseppe, -- 1805-1872.
Mill, John Stuart, -- 1806-1873.
Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865.
Proudhon, P.-J. -- 1809-1865.
Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich, -- 1814-1876.
Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862.
Marx, Karl, -- 1818-1883.
Herzen, Aleksandr, -- 1812-1870.
Itō, Hirobumi, -- 1841-1909.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, -- 1844-1900.
Sorel, Georges, -- 1847-1922.
Bernstein, Eduard, -- 1850-1932.
Martí, José, -- 1853-1895.
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, -- kniazʹ -- 1842-1921.
Pankhurst, Emmeline, -- 1858-1928.
Herzl, Theodor, -- 1860-1904.
Webb, Beatrice, -- 1858-1943.
Addams, Jane, -- 1860-1935.
Sun, Yat-sen, -- 1866-1925.
Weber, Max, -- 1864-1920.
Gandhi, -- Mahatma, -- 1869-1948.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹch, -- 1870-1924.
Luxemburg, Rosa, -- 1871-1919.
Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965.
Gentile, Giovanni, -- 1875-1944.
Stalin, Joseph, -- 1879-1953.
Trotsky, Leon, -- 1879-1940.
Zapata, Emiliano, -- 1879-1919.
Butler, Smedley D. -- 1881-1940.
Atatürk, Kemal, -- 1881-1938.
Ortega y Gasset, José, -- 1883-1955.
Garvey, Marcus, -- 1887-1940.
Roy, M. N. -- 1887-1954.
Schmitt, Carl, -- 1888-1985.
Kenyatta, Jomo.
Gramsci, Antonio, -- 1891-1937.
Mao, Zedong, -- 1893-1976.
Hayek, Friedrich A. von -- 1899-1992.
Oakeshott, Michael, -- 1901-1990.
Maudoodi, Syed Abul ʻla, -- 1903-1979.
Rand, Ayn.
Arendt, Hannah, -- 1906-1975.
Beauvoir, Simone de, -- 1908-1986.
Næs, Arne.
Mandela, Nelson, -- 1918-2013.
Miglio, Gianfranco.
Freire, Paulo, -- 1921-1997.
Rawls, John, -- 1921-2002.
Fanon, Frantz, -- 1925-1961.
X, Malcolm, -- 1925-1965.
Foucault, Michel, -- 1926-1984.
Guevara, Che, -- 1928-1967.
Chomsky, Noam.
King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968.
Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, -- 1931-
Sharīʻtī, ʻlī.
Walzer, Michael.
Nozick, Robert S.
ʻbādī, Shīrīn.
Pape, Robert Anthony, -- 1960-
Political science.
Political science -- History.
World politics.