Quotes About Influence

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.

not exact, but: the two most important questions are; who will teach the children? what they teach them?

He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.

The Muse herself makes some men inspired, from whom a chain of other men is strung out who catch their own inspiration from theirs.

Socrates: But why, my dear Crito, should we care about the opinion of the many?

I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of [c] the stronger.

Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, letters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious

For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind.

Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger.

let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its law.

So when the orator is more convincing than the doctor, what happens is that an ignorant person is more convincing than the expert before an equally ignorant audience.

What you should do, said Socrates, is to say a magic spell over him every day until you have charmed his fears away.

Then, I said, no science or art considers or enjoins the interest of the stronger or superior, but only the interest of the subject and weaker?

Bana kal?rsa Atinal?lar bir insan?n bilge olup olmad???n? önemsemez, yeter ki o insan bilgeliÄŸini baÅŸkalar?na aktarmas?n.

The wisest have the most authority

That the makers of laws are the majority who are weak; and they make laws and distribute praises and censures with a view to themselves and to their own interests.

But far more dangerous are the others, who began when you were children, and took possession of your minds with their falsehoods

Now, can musicians use music to make people unmusical?'* 'Impossible.' 'Can skilled horsemen use their skill to make people bad horsemen?' 'No.' 'So can moral people use morality to make people immoral? Or in general can good people use their goodness to make people bad?'*

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

But to Plato in his present mood of mind the family is only a disturbing influence which, instead of filling up, tends to disarrange the higher unity of the State. No organization is needed except a political, which, regarded from another point of view, is a military one.

A rhetorician is capable of speaking effectively against all comers, whatever the issue, and can consequently be more persuasive in front of crowds about… anything he likes.