“Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.” MenMeanPersonsShowsWisdomHandsWantedSpiritPoliticsBornWealthCitiesEconomyDangerousBuildingOfficeAmbitionHighestLowsAccountsPropertyEntertainmentRichesFallenLiberalismRomeDaringDistributionInclinationCommonwealthImpetusDistribution Of WealthSumptuous Book:Greek and Roman Lives Source: Greek and Roman Lives
“To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.” MenWantHas BeensWisdomRunningCertainWiseDangerous Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.” IfsWisdomHandsPoliticalPoliticsClassEconomyDangerousDrawsPropertyExperimentsLiberalismPolitical Power Book:Speeches and Forensic Arguments Source: Speeches and Forensic Arguments
“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'” MenGivingWisdomPoliticsPowerEconomyDangerousCryCreaturesConvincedGravesLiberalismGrasping Book:The Quotable Abigail Adams Source: The Quotable Abigail Adams