power Quotes

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

If we can choose to do something, we can also choose not to do it.

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated... ...

We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in... ...

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Those who are truly virtuous have the best right to rebel, but they are also the least likely to do so.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.

Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.