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Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats. (1994) p. 99


Philip K. Howard


#bureaucrats #conservative #corruption #government #plato

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life


Plato


#future #life #plato #education

However, he did say that a state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.


Jostein Gaarder


#women #women-s-rights #education

Even now I'm well aware that if I allowed myself to listen to him I couldn't resist but would have the same experience again. He makes me admit that, in spite of my great defects, I neglect myself and instead get involved in Athenian politics. So I force myself to block my ears and go away, like someone escaping from the Sirens, to prevent myself sitting there beside him till I grow old.


Plato


#plato #socrates #symposium #experience

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!


J.K. Rowling


#interview #nudge #platonic #radio #wink

In our opposed forms of loneliness and self-recognition and recognition of the other, we touched each other often as we spoke; and on shore in explorations of the past, we strolled with our arms linked...


Harold Brodkey


#gay #love #old #platonic-love #relationship

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.


Plato


#plato #life

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.


Plato


#education #lovely-things #plato #slow #education

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.


Leo Tolstoy


#platonic #platonic-love #tragedy #love

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.


Thomas Hardy


#love






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