Plato Quotes

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

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• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Authority

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Death
  • Cold
  • Whiskey

• Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a 'death in the family.'

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Life
  • World
  • History

• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Him

• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Time
  • Different
  • Live

• London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Good
  • History
  • Hope

• We hear tears loudly on this side of Heaven. What we don't take time to contemplate are the even louder cheers on the other side of death's valley.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • Death
  • Heaven

• I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Hate
  • Know

• If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Up
  • Why
  • Death

• A pig resembles a saint in that he is more honored after death than during his lifetime.

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Death
  • Honored
  • Pig

• The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Her

• Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Why
  • Death

• My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.

  

  Jack London
  • Death
  • Attention

• If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • God
  • Death
  • Earth

• I have mothers with small children come to me and say, 'You found that I had early breast cancer - because of you, I don't have cancer.' You've just prevented that person from dying early, and to prevent an early, unnecessary death is incredibly meaningful.

  

  Anne Wojcicki
  • Children
  • Death
  • Small

• If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Important
  • Death

• A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • War
  • Death
  • Law

• The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Death
  • Belief
  • Self

• The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

  

  William Penn
  • Taken
  • Humility
  • Humble

• A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

  

  Plato
  • Death
  • Gods
  • Good Man