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plato atheism age
At an early age I sucked up the milk of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Terence, Anacreon, Plato and Euripides, diluted with that of Moses and the prophets. Denis Diderot
plato years ideas
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. Ludwig von Mises
plato kind members
Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society.
plato people leader
People have Plato's form in their mind of what a leader is, or what a C.E.O. is, and it is a bunch of elements that I really don't conform to at all. I've given this a lot of thought, and I came to the conclusion that I don't care. Dick Costolo
plato father thinking
I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and smell like them, I think it's pretty clear that the Founding Fathers would have hated your guts. And what's more, you would've hated them. They were everything you despise. They studied science, read Plato, hung out in Paris and thought the Bible was mostly bulls**t. Bill Maher
plato school exercise
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind. Edward Gibbon
plato history secret
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.
plato play bears
Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays. Benjamin Jowett
plato book greatness
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism. C. S. Lewis
democracies-have support democracy
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Benazir Bhutto
democracies-have democracy terrorism
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
democracies-have democracy hacked
American democracy has been hacked. Al Gore
democracies-have political historical
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. Benjamin Disraeli
democracies-have government security-and-freedom
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
democracies-have government security-and-freedom
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
democracies-have political democracy
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa! Allen Ginsberg
democracies-have long criminals
So long, and thanks for all the fish. Douglas Adams
democracies-have people decision
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. Abraham Lincoln
liberty
Liberty just would never give up. They were never out of the game. Winston Varnado
liberty security
Mr. President, liberty and security are not contradictory.
liberty agree ifs
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.
liberty wrens needs
The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'
liberty troops world
American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world. Dennis Prager
liberty matter individual
I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.
liberty civil-rights causes
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
liberty slavery prosperity
What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?
liberty economics fallacy
As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.