Diogenes Quotes
He was seized and dragged off to King Philip, and being asked who he was, replied, "A spy upon your insatiable greed."
Laërtius, Diogenes. Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Translated by R. D. Hicks, vol. 2, Harvard University Press, 1925, p. 45.
He was answering protesters and critics of his economic policies which led to dramatic price increases.
The Cupeno Indians were considered “Mission Indians” and hence were taxed by San Diego California authorities although they had no representation in government nor could they vote. Garra led his people and tried to unite all the Indians of California in an armed uprising against “taxation without representation”. He was found guilty and executed by a firing squad although he has not been terribly different from the New England patriots rebelling against the English.
Shoebat was a former PLO member and recalls this from his own childhood.
Diogenes (/daɪˈɒdʒɪniːz/ dy-OJ-in-eez; Ancient Greek: Διογένης, romanized: Diogénēs [di.oɡénɛ͜ɛs]), also known as Diogenes the Cynic (Διογένης ὁ Κυνικός, Diogénēs ho Kynikós), was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea coast of modern-day Turkey, in 412 or 404 BC and died at Corinth in 323 BC.
