1, “Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political

animal” – Aristotle

2. “Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it

under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already given and

transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weights like a nightmare on the

brains of the living”. – Marx

3. “Do not be angry with me for speaking the truth; no man will survive who genuinely opposes

you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in

the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive

for even a short time”. – Socrates

4. “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don’t want any greatness for

it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice

alive”. – Camus

5. “Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every

man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security that what their

own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal….the life of man, solitary, poor,

nasty, brutish, and short”. – Hobbes

6. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are

endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and

the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…” – Jefferson

7. “The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, saying ‘This is Mine”, and found people

simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society. From what crimes, murders,

horrors and misery would humans have been spared if one had pulled up the stakes and cried

out to all, ‘Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you do not remember that the fruits of the

earth belongs to all and the earth to no one'”. – Rousseau

8. “The sum total of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society,

the real foundation, on which rises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond

definite forms of social consciousness”. – Marx

9. “I venture the challenging statement that if American democracy ceases to move forward as a

living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism

will grow in strength in our land”. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

10. “If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it

go…perchance it will wear out…but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of

injustice to another, then I say, break the law…What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do

not lend myself to that which I condemn”. – Thoreau

11. “With the change of the economic foundation the entire immense superstructure is more or

less rapidly transformed. In considering such transformations the distinction should always be

made between the material transformation of production which can be determined with the

precision of natural science, and the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic-in short,

ideological-forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out”. – Marx

12. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways: the point, however, is to

change it”. –Marx

Feel free to interpret, argue, agree or otherwise expand upon the quotation but be sure to

substantiate your views.