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

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.

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

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.

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.

Reform as such is inherently reactionary and perpetuates psychological dependence onthe enemy, while confusingthe true class contradictionsbetween ourselves and the enemy.

All Prophets were leaders

You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

My karma just ran over my dogma.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

Power grows out of Organized Knowledge, but mind you, it grows out of it, through Application and Use.

Nothing really attracts me to the film industry, to be perfectly honest. I look at acting as an art, and that's all it is for me. It's just fun.

Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.