Writing in 1919, philosopher Morris Raphael Cohen described baseball as America's national religion.

In Ancient Greece, several philosophers and historians analysed and described classical republicanism.

Many Greek philosophers, especially Platonists, would often describe Sparta as a good state, strong, brave, and free.

As this indicates, the classes were not arranged by wealth or capital but by what philosophers described as their moral purity.

Also, in his Theses on Feuerbach (1844), he writes that "the philosophers have only described the world, in various ways, the point is to change it".

Whereas a peasant's billhook, which no philosopher has ever described, always functions as it should.

The last survivor of a dead epoch - this is how the distinguished philosopher describes himself.

Many Greek philosophers, especially Platonists, would often describe Sparta as an ideal state, strong, brave, and free from the corruptions of commerce and money.

The important liberal philosopher, Karl Popper, described television as a 'bad teacher'.

One philosopher who is interviewed describes Europe as having an underlying predisposition toward fascism that he calls its "hidden transgression."