"Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them."

Society, Music, Innovation, Danger, State

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"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Society, Economy, Consent, Education, Awareness

"Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Society, Prison, Love, Compassion, Regulation

"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Society, Identity, Belonging, Truth, Modernity

"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Society, Poverty, Wealth, Perspective, Gratitude

"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

Society, Celebrity, Recognition, Privacy, Life

"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Society, Church, Abuse, Victims, Media

"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Society, Praise, Criticism, Irony, Judgment

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."

James A. Baldwin, American Novelist

Society, Power, Racism, Resistance, Justice

"Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike."

Benjamin Tucker, American Activist

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"The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness."

Henry A. Kissinger, American Statesman

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"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."

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"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."

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"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."

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"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

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"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity " I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly."

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"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."

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"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"

"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"

"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."

"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."

"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."

"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."

"Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike."

"The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness."

Explore more quotes by Plato

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."

"Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."

"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity " I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly."

"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."

"Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil."

"Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly."