Assembly Quote by James Madison

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Plutarch

“Did you hear the story of Socrates? He was a philosopher in ancient Greece, so they killed him.”

— Troy DeNuthe

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“That Socrates should ever have been so treated by the Athenians!" Slave! why say "Socrates"? Speak of the thing as it is: That ever…

— Epictetus

“The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her.”

— Bettany Hughes

All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.

— Plato

We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he never wrote…

— Christopher Hitchens

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

— Xenophon

Socrates was a philosopher. He went around pointing out errors in the way things were done. They fed him hemlock.

— Gil Amelio

“apparently there was no reason now why a man should not do as he pleased, so long as he remained within the law. A…

— Will Durant

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Diogenes

“Socrates roamed and surrounded by the oppositions in Athens, like a lion that's surrounded by hyenas in the forest.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo