Glaucon Quotes

#1. Nay, Socrates," said Glaucon, "the measure of listening to such discussions is the whole of life for reasonable men". The Republic, 450c.

Plato

#2. Darwin, writing in Victorian England, shared Glaucon's view (from aristocratic Athens) that people are obsessed with their reputations.

Jonathan Haidt

#3. Could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? Glaucon

Steven D. Levitt

#4. I'll praise Glaucon for the rest of the book as the guy who got it right - the guy who realized that the most important principle for designing an ethical society is to make sure that everyone's reputation is on the line all the time, so that bad behavior will always bring bad consequences.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

Shel Silverstein

#6. You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.

Monica Johnson

#7. The Scripture says that as Jesus gave up his spirit, as he sagged there, lifeless on that Roman cross, God the Father turned his back. I am convined that he did that because if he kept on watching, he couldn't have gone through with it.

Todd Burpo

#8. Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#9. You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. Teach the young people how to think, not what to think.

Sidney Sugarman

#11. The Anti-Semiten. Why don't they ever learn? Why does God permit it?" Roth sneered. "God is a luxury I don't give myself.

Norman Mailer