Public Opinion

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Harcourt, Brace, 1922 - 427 頁
 

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第 177 頁 - "a landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
第 410 頁 - until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one . . . cities will never cease from ill,—no, nor the human race
第 273 頁 - the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
第 261 頁 - Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention . . . and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
第 178 頁 - excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
第 3 頁 - It does not help us in our hope of the life to come. It is enough to know what Scripture states. Why then argue? But a century and a half after St. Ambrose, opinion was still troubled, on this occasion by the problem of the antipodes. A monk
第 410 頁 - becomes defiant and warns Adeimantus that he must "attribute the uselessness" of philosophers "to the fault of those who will not use them, and not to themselves. The pilot should not humbly beg the sailors to be commanded by him—that is not the order of nature.
第 183 頁 - the faculty of acting in such a way as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends and without previous education in the performance.
第 253 頁 - the citizens of a state are to judge and distribute offices according to merit, then they must know each other's characters; where they do not possess this knowledge, both the election to offices and the decision of law suits will go wrong.
第 283 頁 - So bad is the contact of legislators with necessary facts that they are forced to rely either on private tips or on that legalized atrocity, the Congressional investigation, where Congressmen, starved of their legitimate food for thought, go on a wild and feverish man-hunt, and do not stop at cannibalism.

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