Friedrich Ratzel Quotes

• Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.

  Friedrich Ratzel

  Freedom, Democracy, Weakness

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• A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be charged with the conviction that all existence is one-a single conception sustained from beginning to end upon one identical law.

  Friedrich Ratzel

  Philosophy, Law, Names

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