Quotes About Philosophy

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

I have spent a lot of my career working on normative political philosophy, developing the 'capabilities approach' to social justice. I have also spent a lot of my career working on the structure of the emotions, and their role in human life.

The Democratic Party believes that health insurance is a social responsibility of the nation. I believe that health insurance is an individual responsibility. And that's a really hard philosophy to mesh.

Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

Voluntaryism is the idea that all human interactions should be free of coercion, based on individual self-ownership. This is in contrast to socialism, which is based on coercion justified by collective ownership.

I have a political philosophy by which I judge political events. It's called socialism, which at its core is about achieving equality, justice and peace through democracy.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

My mind might be conservative, but at heart, I was always a socialist.

I am not a socialist.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

My father brought me up to be a socialist.

Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don't have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist.

A core plank of left-wing academic thought is that gender and race are 'socially constructed.'

I stand on the black side of issues, philosophically, politically, socially, and for me to not check that box, I felt like, would be some sort of betrayal of not only who I am but also the community I affiliate with.

Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.

Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and military leaders of all time, such as Alexander the Great, Pericles of Athens, Hannibal of Carthage, and Julius Caesar of Rome, were all pagans, or else living in a pagan society.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.