Ideologies Quotes

Betty Friedan

“Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves”

John Stuart Mill

“The only purpose for which any power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community is to prevent harm to others”

Mary Wollstonecraft

“Women ought to have representation”

John Rawls

“A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you’d be willing to enter it in a random place”

John Locke - law

“Where there is no law there is no freedom”

John Locke - harm

“No one ought to harm another in his life

Micheal Oakshott

Conservatives “prefer the familiar to the unknown”

Thomas Hobbes

Life in a state of nature is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”

Edmund Burke

“Society is a contract between the dead, the living and those yet to be born”

Any Rand

“The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny the individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities”

Robert Nozick

“Tax, for the most part, is theft”

Beatrice Webb

Revolutions are “chaotic, inefficient and counter productive”

Anthony Crossland

“I’m going to destroy every grammar school in England and Wales”

Rosa Luxemborg

“The mass strike is the first natural, impulsive form of every great revolutionary struggle of the proletariat”

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles

A revolution was “historically inevitable”

Anthony Giddens

Welfare is a “hand up not a hand out”