"Faction is the greatest evil and the most common danger. "Faction" is the conventional English translation of the Greek stasis, one of the most remarkable words to be found in any language."

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Source : "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 44, 1985.

Moses Finley

#Evil Quotes #Greek Quotes #Common Quotes

“Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.”
“We need to be confident. We need not to blink.”
“I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.”
“There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.”
“Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.”
“For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.”
“My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread”
“The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.”

Source : Willa Gibbs (1954). “The Twelfth Physician”

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