Individual Quote by Plato

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

— Plato

I have long been settled in my own opinion that neither Philosophy, nor Religion, nor Morality, nor Wisdom, nor Interest, will ever govern nations…

— John Adams

“There will be no end to the troubles of the state or indeed of humanity until philosophers become kings or until those we now…

— Plato

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power,…

— Henry David Thoreau

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power,…

— Henry David Thoreau

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never…

— Frank Chodorov

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

— Robert Musil

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant.

— John Mearsheimer

The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation,…

— Plato

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

— Hudson Taylor