Quotes About Plato Philosopher Kings

#1. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings. - Author: Thomas More

#2. I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something. - Author: Brian Wilson

#3. Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now? - Author: Neil Gaiman

#4. In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content. - Author: Kevin Spacey

#5. Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#6. The U.S.A. has become a nation of determined spectators, willing to watch someone else perform. - Author: Sybil Leek

#7. I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war - Author: Huey Long

#8. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and
we will not say fled; firstly because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat ... - Author: Charles Dickens

#9. A State would be happy where philosophers were kings, or kings philosophers. - Author: Plato