Communication Quote by Timothy Snyder

“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

“One particular form of this logical argument is directed against a too naïve version of liberalism, of democracy, and of the principle that the…

— Karl R. Popper

“It was fundamental to Plato, and to the mainstream of classical Greek philosophy after him, that men are created unequal; not merely in the…

— M.I. Finley

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority…

— Cornel West

“And it is plain enough, not from this instance only, but from many everywhere, that freedom is an excellent thing since even the Athenians,…

— Jim Lacey

“The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his…

— C.S. Lewis

“We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.”

— Timothy Snyder

“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)”

— Plato

“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

“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

With regards to political enemies Plato had a kill-and-banish principle. ... In interpreting it , modern-day Platonists are clearly disturbed by it, even as…

— Karl Popper

“You know how much I used to like Plato. Today I realize he lied. For the things of this world are not a reflection…

— Tadeusz Borowski