#2,978

Nobody in politics can foresee the consequences either of what he destroys, or of what he constructs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,973

In the modern state there now exist only two parties: citizens and bureaucracy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 475

#2,962

Unlimited gullibility is required to be able to believe that any social condition can be improved in any other way than slowly, gradually, and involuntarily.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 473

#2,949

Where the law is not customary law, it is easily turned into a mere political weapon.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 471

#2,931

Religion is socially effective not when it adopts socio-political solutions, but when it succeeds in having society be spontaneously influenced by purely religious attitudes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 468

#2,918

The people is sometimes right when it is frightened; but is always wrong when it becomes enthusiastic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 466

#2,917

The golden rule of politics is to make only minimal changes and to make them as slowly as possible.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 466

#2,911

Boring, like an illustrious foreign visitor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,885

Public political discussion is not intellectually adult in any country.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 462

#2,875

The greater part of an age’s political ideas depends on the state of military technology.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 460

#2,862

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man’s ability.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 458

#2,853

The majority of the tasks that this century’s typical ruler believes he is obliged to assume are nothing more than abuses of power.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457

#2,851

Political regimes become tolerable when they begin to hold their own principles in contempt.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 456

#2,826

What is difficult about every moral or social problem is based on the fact that its appropriate solution is not a question of all or nothing, but of more or less.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453

#2,812

Political activity ceases to tempt the intelligent writer, when he finally understands that there is no intelligent text that will succeed in ousting even a small-town mayor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 451

#2,805

A healthily constituted state is one where innumerable obstacles restrict and impede the freedom of the legislator.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#2,784

The state has not behaved with discretion and restraint except when it has been watched by rich bourgeoisies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447

#2,782

To substitute a democratic government for another, non-democratic government comes down to substituting the beneficiaries of the pillaging.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446

#2,775

The politician never says what he believes to be true, but rather what he considers to be effective.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 445

#2,761

One can only speak of the sovereignty of the law where the legislator’s function is reduced to consulting the consensus of custom in the light of ethics.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443