Plato Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Jack Kevorkian
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
Ramez Naam
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
T. Boone Pickens
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
Kate Christensen
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
W. C. Fields
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I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.
Jackie DeShannon
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
Patricia Hill Collins
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
Olivia Wilde
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
Naomi Klein
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It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.
Vernor Vinge
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
Fat Joe
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
Bea Arthur
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Some people can sing, and they can sing sing, but Brandy can not only sing sing, but she has a voice and a tone that is unlike any other.
Babyface
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
Harold Bloom
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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
Jackie Cooper
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In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.
Gail Sheehy
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
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We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.
Nat Friedman
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I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.
Dimitri Payet
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Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!
Brian Tracy
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The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.
Aristotle
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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Plato