Emanuel Levy
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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“The greatest instrument of political authority is the ability to give names and enforce definitions.”
J.J. Rousseau, Social Contract:
“The stronger is never strong enough to be always master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.”
Bertrand Russell:
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.”
Power: A New Social Analysis
“Powerlessness corrupts. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.”
G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman:
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Sociology: Power, Concept, Definitions–Hobbes, Rousseau, Russell, Shaw
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“The greatest instrument of political authority is the ability to give names and enforce definitions.”
J.J. Rousseau, Social Contract:
“The stronger is never strong enough to be always master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.”
Bertrand Russell:
The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.”
Power: A New Social Analysis
“Powerlessness corrupts. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.”
G.B. Shaw, Man and Superman:
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.