Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Topic: Society
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Plato
Never discourage someone who is working toward a goal, no matter their speed!
Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
More on Society
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.
You don't have to be big or well known to be great.