Franz Oppenheimer quotes
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“The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and securing itself against revolt from within and attacks from abroad. Teleologically, this dominion had no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors.”
-- Franz OppenheimerSource : Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.15, Transaction Publishers
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“I propose in the following discussion to call one's own labor, and the equivalent exchange of one's own labor for the labor of others, the 'economic means' for the satisfaction of needs, while the unrequited appropriation of the labor of others will be called the 'political means'.”
-- Franz OppenheimerSource : Franz Oppenheimer (1923). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.25, Transaction Publishers
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“I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man.”
-- Franz OppenheimerSource : Franz Oppenheimer (2017). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.15, The Floating Press
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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Source : Address at the Leadership and Diversity Conference, Gatineau, Canada, May 19, 2004.
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“I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.”
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