Allan Bloom

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Justice means minding your own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.