Plato Quotes

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

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• You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• I think that liberals need to grow up.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Think
  • Grow

• My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Father
  • Future

• If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Dog
  • Equality

• I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

  

  Harry Browne
  • War
  • Government
  • Gun

• It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Wanted

• I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Contemporary

• I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Try
  • I Can
  • Fit

• Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Good
  • Know

• A revenue-neutral carbon tax would benefit all Americans by eliminating the need for costly energy subsidies while promoting a level playing field for energy producers.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Energy

• Centuries of their labor would not reveal to them any more of Creation than they already knew. Yet through their endeavor, men would glimpse the unimaginable artistry of Yahweh's work, in seeing how ingeniously the world had been constructed. By this construction, Yahweh's work was indicated, and Yahweh's work was concealed.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Real

• We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • People

• Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Die

• You can't go voicing something if it's just not right.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Right
  • Voicing

• Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

  

  Leon Blum
  • World
  • Values
  • Fascism

• Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Earth

• There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Truth
  • Plants
  • Traitor

• If one doth act in friendly wise, With no evil thought toward any single creature, And in so doing becometh proper, And if he have compassion in his soul Toward all living beings--this noble one Doth acquire abundant Virtue.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Soul
  • Wise
  • Virtue

• Detachment is a flaw, not a virtue - don’t you realize that?

  

  Steven Erikson
  • Virtue
  • Detachment
  • Flaw

• At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Moment
  • Human World
  • Non-humans

• It's not a matter of emancipating truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the forms of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Hegemony

• Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

  

  Plato
  • Virtue
  • Vice
  • Voluntary