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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #political
The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions. ↗
The success and achievement of Western Civilization couldn't have been possible without the intellectual contribution of the Enlightenment. Prior to the Enlightenment, freedom of opinion, or consciousness were not guaranteed. In fact, intellectual self-reliance was considered an heresy. For the first time in history, human beings were able to challenge traditions, superstitions or religious authoritarianism with absolute intellectual confidence. Now individuals could open the doors to knowledge and reason, exercising pure intellectual freedom. This is the glory and trascendence of this movement. Now the individual can make choices, and being responsable of his own life, instead of following instructions of some totalitarian institution. In the West, we have followed with excitenment this wave of freedom in the Middle East. But we are cautious. There won't be an authentic freedom, if men and women are incapable to think for themselves, If religious chauvinism still control the lives with totalitarian tools of oppresion. That is the dilemma to analize with more detail in the future". ↗
The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a generalist's discipline. Imagine the poor geographer trying to explain to someone at a campus cocktail party (or even to an unsympathetic adminitrator) exactly what it is he or she studies. "Geography is Greek for 'writing about the earth.' We study the Earth." "Right, like geologists." "Well, yes, but we're interested in the whole world, not just the rocky bits. Geographers also study oceans, lakes, the water cycle..." "So, it's like oceanography or hydrology." "And the atmosphere." "Meteorology, climatology..." "It's broader than just physical geography. We're also interested in how humans relate to their planet." "How is that different from ecology or environmental science?" "Well, it encompasses them. Aspects of them. But we also study the social and economic and cultural and geopolitical sides of--" "Sociology, economics, cultural studies, poli sci." "Some geographers specialize in different world regions." "Ah, right, we have Asian and African and Latin American studies programs here. But I didn't know they were part of the geography department." "They're not." (Long pause.) "So, uh, what is it that do study then? ↗
Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever. ↗
I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way. ↗
