Francis Fukuyama
An American political scientist known for his book 'The End of History and the Last Man', which argued for the triumph of liberal democracy.
Quotes by Francis Fukuyama
The future of humanity depends on our ability to manage technology wisely.
The pursuit of happiness is not enough; we also need meaning.
The liberal state is not perfect, but it is the best we have.
The strength of a society lies in its ability to generate trust.
The decline of civic engagement is a serious problem for democracy.
The demand for dignity is a universal human aspiration.
The challenge of the 21st century is to build inclusive political communities.
The human desire to be recognized as a free and equal agent is at the heart of modern politics.
The state is the most important institution for human flourishing.
The pursuit of political order is an ongoing struggle.
The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely formal claim over another, is what gives to political life its specifically human content.
History should be viewed not as a teleological process but as a series of contingencies.
Liberal democracy remains the only coherent political aspiration that spans different regions and cultures around the world.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely formal claim over another, is what gives to political life its specifically human content.
Trust is the expectation that arises within a community of regular, honest, and cooperative behavior, based on commonly shared norms, on the one hand, and interpersonal familiarity, on the other.
Social capital can be defined simply as the existence of a certain level of trust among individuals in a society.
The great disruption of the late twentieth century was not just economic but moral and cultural.
Human nature is not infinitely malleable; it has certain fixed aspects that constrain the possibilities of social engineering.
Biotechnology represents a challenge to our traditional notions of human dignity and equality.
State-building is the creation of new government institutions in countries where they either do not exist or are dysfunctional.