THE VOICE OF REASON Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Who said this? Part IV
"Night and day, through the months and years, a babel of voices dins unintelligible moral denunciations into the heads of ordinary English men and women, for whom they bear not the slightest relationship to any of the facts of their daily existence ... Some time there has to be an end to this. Some time - why not now? - the citizen will put his faith again in the great simplicities and will confound the merchants of mumbo jumbo."
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