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Best State Quotes by Plato
- Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and…
- The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference…
- Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?
- Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like…
- The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be…
- The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger…
- That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of…
- The God of Love lives in a state of need.
- Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
- A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila