We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension". — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
