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

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.

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.

In the western world today everyone is a democrat.

It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.

When she smiled at me, I felt unborn poems stirring within.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

No, tiny violent one.

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.