A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.

Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.

If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.