Plato Quotes About Community

Quotes about: Community

• ... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.

  Plato

  Opportunity, Government, Law

• ... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole community. Our idea was that we were most likely to justice in such a community, and so be able to decide the question we are trying to answer. We are therefore at the moment trying to construct what we think is a happy community by securing the happiness not of a select minority, but of a whole.

  Plato

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

• Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.

  Plato

  Play, Community, Citizens

• The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

  Plato

  Community, Principles, Riches

  Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.200

• And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a sound system of education you produce citizens of good character, and citizens of sound character, with the advantage of a good education, produce in turn children better than themselves and better able to produce still better children in their turn, as can be seen with animals.

  Plato

  Children, Educational, Character

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