“But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.”
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“…if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.”
― The Republic and Other Works
― The Republic and Other Works
“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
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“Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
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