Theory Account

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“... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping that those in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the “establishment.””
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“Principles aren’t of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)