Francis Fukuyama - The End of History and the Last Man (1992)

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It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Francis Fukuyama

What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such … That is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.

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The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

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To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

Francis Fukuyama

At the end of history, it is not necessary that all societies become successful liberal societies, merely that they end their ideological pretensions of representing different and higher forms of human society.

Francis Fukuyama