Plato Quotes

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

If one truly wishes to found a more just and rational social order, it is not enough to count on the caprices of technology.

The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.

Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic, front cover facing outward. I had read only some of it and understood less, but I was excited by it and knew it was something wonderful.

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

There is no power without justice.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

Without justice, there can be no peace.

Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.

We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

If you know what's going on and know how society can be improved and happiness advanced, you tend to focus on how to get things done that will help health, safety, opportunity, justice, accountability of powerful institutions to the people they are supposed to serve.

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.