“What you read at Columbia is Plato's Republic and Homer's Iliad. What you learn at Columbia is that reading isn't education. Education… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Aristotle's Politics is more humane than Plato's Republic, just as a quasi-bourgeois consciousness is more humane than a restorative one that, in… — Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Adorno Theodor Wiesengrund Copy Share Image
“.. how worthless are all these poor people who are engaged in matters political, and, as they suppose, are playing the philosopher.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
