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.

In the western world today everyone is a democrat.

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.

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

We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is the best form of political organization.

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.