Hans Morgenthau famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Man will not live without answers to his questions.
-- Hans Morgenthau

#Men #Answers
The statesman must think in terms of the national interest, conceived as power among other powers. The popular mind, unaware of the fine distinctions of the statesman's thinking, reasons more often than not in the simple moralistic and legalistic terms of absolute good and absolute evil.
-- Hans Morgenthau

#Simple #Thinking #Evil
Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.
-- Hans Morgenthau

#Philosophy #Tyrants #Moral
Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.
-- Hans Morgenthau

#Power #Men #Slave
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.
-- Hans Morgenthau

#Animal #Men #Choices
Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.
-- Hans Morgenthau

#Successful #Issues #Law
When we speak of power, we mean man's control over the minds and actions of other men. By political power we refer to the mutual relations of control among the holders of public authority and between the latter and the people at large.
-- Hans Morgenthau

#Mean #Men #People
Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.
-- Hans Morgenthau

#Destiny #United States #Libertarian
Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.
-- Hans Morgenthau

#Yield #Argument #Position

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
The simplest answer is to act.
The most customer-centric organizations can answer any question by deciding what's best for the customer, without ever having to ask.
Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
If the patient has been to more than four physicians, nutrition is probably the medical answer.
A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.

Hans Morgenthau famous quotes

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