CONFUCIUS

Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

We need a meritocracy to guard against poor rulers.

SOCRATES

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them

think.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the

soul with evil.

You have a duty to live within the rules of a country you chose

to live in.

PLATO

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in

politics is that you end up being governed by your

inferiors.”-Plato

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and

disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals

alike. Dictatorship naturally arises out of

democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme

liberty.

The most qualified people are those who have trained

themselves to rule.

Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory

over self.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for

himself, must be either a beast or a god.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion

to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider

god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move

against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

The best type of ruler would beeducated.

HOBBES

During the time men live without a common power to keep them

all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such

a war, as if of every man, against every man.

A man's conscience and his judgement is the same thing;

and as the judgement, so also the conscience, may be

erroneous.

A constant state of war needs a firm hand so an absolutewould be the only form of government

LOCKE

I have always thought the actions of men the best

interpreters of their thoughts.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought

to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

A government’s main job is to protect our property.

ROUSSEAU

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men

who know much say little.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom

be organized and united for specific action, and a minority

can.

People can choose to band together and agree to give up some rights for the sake of the need to be governed. This is called making a ‘…………….’

MONTESQUIEU

Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to

come.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy

of a citizen in a democracy.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

Power should never be in the hands of one person but shared

between ………………

Karl Marx

The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion to the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity -- and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally.