Lovers of Sophia Quotes

“Plato is fully convinced that philosophers cannot quietly retire from politics because they distain its rampant corruption. Philosophers will inevitably be victimized by unjust governments and perhaps martyred.”
― Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia

“theatricality and deception are powerful weapons”
― Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia

“Needless to say, such a revolution will be resisted by the mob who are incapable of understanding that it is for their own good, and that even those of them who are killed in the course of it will benefit by being reincarnated into a more just society.”
― Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia

“Plato is fully convinced that men of lesser intuition and understanding will always make themselves miserable through bringing about one or another unjust regime as a reflection of their own inner discord.”
― Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia

“Both the gangsters and the military-industrial corporatists are glorified thieves. Consequently, more disciplined and intelligent men with well-considered plans and long-term projects find them easy to manipulate.”
― Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia

“to reflect on the ethos of an Übermensch willing to be hated because he is something more than a hero.”
― Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia

“The atmosphere of his world is that of our own — a milieu where the difference between organized crime and legal order is rarely clear, so that even the noblest man must resort to mass deception and terrorism in his thankless task of protecting the decent.”
― Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia

“Truth lies beyond the limits of the possible, such that the instauration of Justice makes impossible demands of allegedly “conservative” but unprincipled hypocrites. “You must be joking,” they say — to which the only answer is for the real Batman to stand up.”
― Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia

“certain measure of deception will be necessary in order for the Guardians to forward their noble-minded project. This is the aspect of the doctrine of Guardianship in the Republic that is most evidently alluded to in Nolan’s use of the Batman mythos to critique democracy.”
― Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia