A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.

What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language.

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

In the western world today everyone is a democrat.

The price of love is high- but pain- we sell it cheap.

Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.

The seventh element is ‘consciousness’ that raises a human from the basic corporeal state and takes them to super-consciousness.

Be afraid of nothing but be aware of everything.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience.

I think Darth Maul has been on a vicious cycle, he's been on a merry go round. In some way he's begging for Obi-Wan Kenobi to take him off that ride.

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

I'd go stupid collecting and counting my money.