To understand this quote, penned over 400 years ago and worded somewhat confusingly to a modern reader, it must be picked apart almost word by word. ... Police forces exist only in a state, and Montaigne's quote does not only refer to laws in a state. ... This quote is a comment on the way in which people perceive not only the law, but history itself. ... In school we learn much more about Gandhi himself than the dissatisfied peasants who marched with him, and more about Churchill than the citizens who handed him the power to make laws. ... The above quote is not...

• Word Count: 1154
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the late 1800's, the United States was abandoning isolationism and emerging as a new power on the global stage. ... Beveridge quoted, "Today we are raising more [crops] than we can consume. ... Navy and a military historian, transformed America into a naval power. ... Using his quote, "God is training the Anglo-Saxon race for its mission [to civilize] weaker races." ... All in all, America needed to become a world power to survive. ...

• Word Count: 756
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

" This quote by Sun Tzu is very important for understanding how leaders get their job done. ... When a leader is in this position of power it is his responsibility to take care and make sure that the people he is leading are happy with his important job. Another quote of Sun Tzu's Art of War says "The general who advances without seeking fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.... Another quote from Machiavelli's The Prince makes this task of representing the ...

• Word Count: 930
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

David Thoreau would unarguably agree with Plato's quote. ... Now does that not sound similar to the quote taken from The Apology? ... This quote proves to the readers that many politicians make illegal and unjust decisions on their own. ... The welfare of the State and the interests of the people in power are prioritized over justice. ... The answer is mentioned in this quote: "If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" ...

• Word Count: 1577
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

These factions, or princes, were looking only to further their own power without regard for those that they meant to rule. ... An advocate of physical power, as well as governmental power, Machiavelli stressed the need for virtu, a quality that has been translated to mean "...a union of force and ability...will"(Burckhardt quoted in Machiavelli 195). ... Subsequently, individual wants supersede all, including any earlier alliances formed in the pursuit of power. ... Such a contract becomes necessary as man's desire for power is exceeded by his want for rest and peace. ... Locke also conce...

• Word Count: 2524
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The quote shows just how important the land that they had discovered was to them because of all the new materials. ... Their main goal was to gain land, resources, and most importantly, power. ... This quote shows how Equiano was passed from master to master and all the resources he encountered. ... Just as nature gives each man an absolute power over all his limbs, the social pact gives the body politic an absolute power over all its members; and it is the same power which, directed by the general will, bears, as I have said, the name of sovereignty."" ... He compares this pact as having ...

• Word Count: 2761
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Machiavelli believes that a prince must use his power for beneficial means, opposed to objectionable ways in order for the prince to maintain his power. ... (Hamlet, II, ii, 278-280) Hamlet proves the second part of Machiavelli's quote, "Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good" with ignorance of morality in order to save himself. ... Hamlet was a tragic prince, because his goal was to get and retain power. ...

• Word Count: 884
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Aristotle disagrees with the idea of one class holding discontinuing political power (Hacker 85). The failure to allow circulation between classes excludes those men who may be ambitious, and wise, but are not in the right class of society to hold any type of political power (Hacker 85). ... He quotes "It is a further objection that he deprives his Guardians even of happiness, maintaining that happiness of the whole state which should be the object of legislation," ultimately he is saying that Guardians sacrifice their happiness for power and control. ... This contradicts Plato...

• Word Count: 1212
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In one of his best-known quotes, he says, "Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved." ... Also, a leader who is loved can often be perceived as weak or vulnerable, while a feared leader can manage his sovereignty better and maintain power for a longer period of time. ... This is how the government in Oceania has so much power. ... This is evidence showing that fear, often with the help of human selfishness, can overcome anything, including the power of love. ... Fear is what gives a leader all his power and contro...

• Word Count: 1025
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, women had more economic and political power than they did in the Renaissance period. ... As seen in document 1 by an unknown contemporary, women proved that they were intelligent and were competent to hold political power. ... He opposes women in power and who are cultured and urges men to repress them. ... He uses a quote from Sophocles to present that women will have achieved glory of eloquence if they honor themselves with silence. ... She also mentions how power was usually inherited at the time rather than obtained. ...

• Word Count: 940
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

" This was a vivid quote of how Romney felt about the black community and that is why Ms. ... McKinney mentioned a quote of hers in which she said "Slavery ended, but the idea of race lived on.... McKinney has informed black citizens that they hold the power of change at the election polls. ... When one is silent in the "political world" they usually hold a lot of power because they are receiving more information than they are giving. ...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The quote 'When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the Gentleman?' ... In relation to the levellers, Morton stated that 'they had many supporters but not amongst the classes that traditionally had power.' Wealth was a great factor, as they had no source to wealth it would be hard for them to progress and due to the fact that they had no connections to those of high power it was hard for them to access great power which explained why they had dispersed very quickly. ...

• Word Count: 944
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

, as quoted so eloquently by Professor Hoffman. ... By limiting their exports on oil and or military imports of buying weapons from other countries our ability to control countries are left out in the cold, not because the United States excludes them but because they are over powered economically and their economic structure does not allow for advancement in growth and prosperity. ... The United States in the past has had a say so in foreign elections, and have even removed presidents and governmental officials from power. ...

• Word Count: 1563
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Socially Constituted and Socially Defined Law An argument against the idea of Natural Law The idea of natural law has been long debated in the subject of jurisprudence. There are theorists that contend that there is a natural law by which everyone must abide in order to thrive in the world. O...

• Word Count: 1374
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

His idea was to do anything it took to obtain and preserve power, even if it meant doing immoral things. ... " (Quoted in Tao-te Ching, 213) Lao-Tzu was implying that if the nation was truly centered on the Tao, any mistakes made, the nation as a whole admitted to those errors and learned from them. ...

• Word Count: 1052
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He pointed out that parental power should be equal. ... He also rebuked the power of monarchs by giving many metaphors including the Adam as one of the examples. ... Also, a man's moral equality got nothing to do with his physical power and capabilities. ...

• Word Count: 7056
• Approx Pages: 28
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School