It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

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

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

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.

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.

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.