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“There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters.”
― The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
― The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
“The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.”
― The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America
― The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy and Caste in America
“The reasons why institutions fail and societies change are complex, and simplistic explanations should evoke automatic suspicion. Sometimes external causes - droughts, plagues or foreign invasions - can unsettle a nation, or its leadership may prove inadequate because of personal factors. In every case, a society faces problems, and is solutions or lack of response set a course for the future.”
― The Immense Majesty: A History of Rome and the Roman Empire
― The Immense Majesty: A History of Rome and the Roman Empire
“When wicked or ignorant men govern, it is not surprising that virtue and goodness are not esteemed. For the former hate them, and the latter do not know them.”
― Maxims and Reflections
― Maxims and Reflections
“The capitalist world-economy needs the states, needs the interstate system, and needs the periodic appearance of hegemonic powers. But the priority of capitalists is never the maintenance, much less the glorification, of any of these structures. The priority remains always the endless accumulation of capital, and this is best achieved by an ever-shifting set of political and cultural dominances within which capitalist firms maneuver, obtaining their support from the states but seeking to escape their dominance.”
― World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
― World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
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