Democracy Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.

— Karl Popper

“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 order to…

— Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Adorno Theodor Wiesengrund

Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

— Malcolm X

“Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything, or his…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— Sienna Wilder

“Implicit in the idea of degeneration from the best form of government, the aristocratic, is Plato’s claim that the members of the demos lack…

— A.C. Grayling

Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.

— James Surowiecki

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

— Thomas Carlyle

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

— Samuel Smiles

Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy men. But…

— Milton Friedman

But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

— John Dewey

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

— James Gibbons