Political Science Quotes - Page 3

• I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

  Sebastian Arcelus

  Latin, America, Political

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have ever read. Betsy Sinclair shows just how strongly we are influenced to express ourselves politically by our family, neighbors, and friends. We are on the verge of a sea change in political science, and this will be one of the most important books we refer to when we describe what happened to the discipline in the twenty-first century.

  James H. Fowler

  Book, Sea, Discipline

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• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  Hannah Simone

  Two, Political, Degrees

  "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Hannah Simone". www.esquire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Teaching, Thinking, Class

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• Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science.

  John Stuart Mill

  Nature, Science, Law

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.1092, e-artnow

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• It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Mean, Numbers, Political

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• I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

  Eliza Dushku

  Stars, School, Boston

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• I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science, astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.

  Brit Marling

  Life, Philosophy, Political

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• There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Strong, Law, Political

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• It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rodell (1986). “55 Men, Story of Constitution”, p.22, Stackpole Books

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• Anarchism is a theory of political science and is opposed to government in the political sense.

  Steven T. Byington

  Government, Political, Theory

  "To Anarchists". "Ithaca Journal", September 17, 1901.

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• I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Artist, Political, Relation

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• The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.

  Edmund Burke

  Real, Practice, Political

  Edmund Burke (1811). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.80

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• A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

  Aristotle

  Passion, Learning, Character

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1730, Princeton University Press

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• Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for credentials, and the greater is the concern for content.

  Noam Chomsky

  Reality, Thinking, Order

  Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press

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• One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Thinking, Political

  "The Busy Life of Being a Lightning Rod for Bush" by Eric Schmitt, www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2002.

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• I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Father, Years, Political

  "The Next Crusade" by John Cassidy, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2007.

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• The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. To most of us, the manipulative invoking of religion to advance a politician or a party is frightening and divisive. The American people will tolerate religious leaders taking positions for or against candidates.

  Mario Cuomo

  Religious, Philosophy, Party

  "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. January 5, 2015.

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• I have been accused of being ignorant of economics (although I am the founder and Chairman of the Board of a company which publishes seven professional economic newsletters), of being ignorant of sociology (although I am trained in sociology and was C. Wright Mills' research assistant at Columbia), of being unable to use statistics (although I earned my living as a professional statistician for five years) and of ignoring political factors (although all my graduate training was in political science).

  Lloyd deMause

  Years, Political, Ignorant

  Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press

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• Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

  Matthew McGrory

  Justice, Political, Criminals

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• Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

  E. O. Wilson

  Political, Mind, Ideology

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• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Chinese Revolution, Political Will

  Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153

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