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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.

    "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 18, 1985.
  • 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.

    Evil   Greek   Common  
    "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 44, 1985.
  • Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

    "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses I. Finley (Second Edition), Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 6, 1985.
  • Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

  • 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.

    Half   Empires   Arguing  
  • If I had to choose one which best characterized the condition of being a political leader in Athens, the word would be "tension".

    "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 2, Athenian Demagogues, p. 60, 1985.
  • 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.

    "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 1, Leaders and Followers, p. 10-11, 1985.
  • A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

    "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 4, Socrates and After, p. 140, 1985.
  • It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

    Men   History   Tradition  
  • In the western world today everyone is a democrat.

    World   Today   Democrat  
    "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Preface, p. ix, 1985.
  • Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

    "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 3, Democracy, Consensus and National Interest, p. 96, 1985.
  • 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.

    Moses I. Finley (1973). “Democracy ancient and modern”
  • 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.

    Men   Goal   Community  
    "Democracy Ancient And Modern". Book by Moses Finley (Second Edition). Chapter 3, Democracy, Consensus and National Interest, p. 90, 1985.
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