#men

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." ↗

— Sophocles

#democracy #justice #keep #must #our

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#artist #comment #condition #creates #force

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#feminine #masculine #men #most #most beautiful

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. ↗

— Sophocles

#hands #ignore #ill #judgment #lies

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. ↗

— Sophocles

#flung #good #hands #hold #ignorant

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. ↗

— Sophocles

#base #cities #corrupts #currency #deeds

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution. ↗

— Sophocles

#makes #men #nothing #pledge #reflection

Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. ↗

— Sophocles

#deed #going #ground #i #i see

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless. ↗

— Sophocles

#gifts #men #saying #true

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #evils #gold #lamentation #less