Plato Quotes

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

We have a good time and try not to kill each other.

I had a hard time treating my field as if it's horse racing, putting actors in competition against each other. I see how the industry and the studios feel it's important, but I don't really have a feeling for being in competition. I want to feel sympathetic and close to others, not opposed to them.

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all good friends.

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.

The longer you stand with people, the better it becomes.

When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.

Edward stretched out his arm, his hand curled into a fist. Seth grinned, revealing the long row of dagger teeth, and bumped his nose against Edward's hand. "Nice teamwork," Edward murmured.

But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

Why can't we all just get along?

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones.

All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord.