Plato Quotes

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them.

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

Philosophy is a performance sport - you have to play it with somebody back and forth.

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.

Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

Stand up for what you know is right.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.