15 Powerful Quotes From Plato

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1. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

- Plato
2. "Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

- Plato
3. “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

- Plato
4. "Love is a serious mental disease."

- Plato
5. "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

- Plato
6. “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.”

- Plato
7. "A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something."

- Plato
8. "Human behavior flows from three main sources:

desire, emotion, and knowledge."

- Plato
9. "Reality is created by the mind,

We can change our reality by changing our mind."

- Plato
10. "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,

While bad people will find a way around the laws."

- Plato
11. “Those who tell the stories rule society.”

- Plato
12. "The measure of a man is what he does with power."

- Plato
13. “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

- Plato
14. “There are three classes of men:

-> lovers of wisdom,
-> lovers of honor,
-> lovers of gain.”

- Plato
15. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

- Plato
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Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.