Quotes by Moses Finley - Page 1

In the western world today everyone is a democrat.
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Democrat
Today
World
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Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.
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Historical
Judgment
Moral
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Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.
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Goal
Philosopher
Plato
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A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.
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Political
Risk
Technique
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Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.
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Sake
Understanding
Waste
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It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.
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History
Men
Tradition
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If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".
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Leader
Political
Would Be
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man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature.
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Men
Community
Goal
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What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.
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Arguing
Empires
Half
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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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Common
Evil
Greek
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Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.
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Democracy
Discovery
Ignorance
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Political leaders, lacking documents that could be kept secret (apart from the occasional exception), lacking media they could control, were of necessity brought into a direct and immediate relationship with their constituents, and therefore under more and direct and immediate control.
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Leader
Media
Political
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We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is the best form of political organization.
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Organization
Political
Practice
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