Belief Quote by Blaise Pascal

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” — Plato”

— Sienna Wilder

“The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man…

— Michel de Montaigne

“If you will bear in mind that Socrates, the best of the pagans, knew of no higher criterion for men, of no better guide…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

“To be political, to live in a polis, meant that everything was decided through words and persuasion and not through force and violence. In…

— Hannah Arendt

“Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.”

— Frederich Nietzsche

“Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and many others speak of dying for the law, for one’s country, one’s friends, one’s family, even for the emperor.”

— N.T. Wright

“But then sanity was a movable feast, wasn't it? One man's madness might be another's politics.”

— Clive Barker

“Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat…

— Terry Pratchett

“What do you take me for? That fool Socrates, who upheld the law at the cost of his own death – just to be…

— Benson Bruno

“... while madness in individuals is relatively rare, it is virtually a prerequisite for a certain sort of political leader.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very…

— Alexis de Tocqueville