--- title: "7 Tyranny Quotes By Plato" description: "7 Tyranny quotes by Plato. Plus more from Plato and more Tyranny sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f85/plato-103_despotism_do-you-mean-that-the-tyrant-will-dare-to_255414.jpg" --- > [“Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/do-you-mean-that-the-tyrant-will-dare-to-use-violence-against-the/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f85/plato-103_despotism_do-you-mean-that-the-tyrant-will-dare-to_255414.jpg) > [The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/the-people-always-have-some-champion-whom-they-set-over-them-and/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d4/plato-103_champion_the-people-always-have-some-champion-who_918752.jpg) > [Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/dictatorship-naturally-arises-out-of-democracy-and-the-most/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee2/plato-103_democracy_dictatorship-naturally-arises-out-of-dem_1115919.jpg) > [A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/a-tyrant-is-always-stirring-up-some-war-or-other-in-order-that-the/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ae/plato-103_antiwar_a-tyrant-is-always-stirring-up-some-war_1136807.jpg) > [Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/tyranny-naturally-arises-out-of-democracy/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/419/plato-103_democracy_tyranny-naturally-arises-out-of-democrac_1288417.jpg) > [The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/the-tyranny-imposed-on-the-soul-by-anger-or-fear-or-lust-or-pain-or/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ecf/plato-103_anger_the-tyranny-imposed-on-the-soul-by-anger_2773259.jpg) > [When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/when-the-tyrant-has-disposed-of-foreign-enemies-by-conquest-and-there/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/plato-103_antiwar_when-the-tyrant-has-disposed-of-foreign_3203348.jpg) ## Other authors on Tyranny - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 54 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/thomas-jefferson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-timothy-snyder-882.jpg) Timothy Snyder 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/timothy-snyder/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-james-madison-46533.jpg) James Madison 18 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/james-madison/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-paine-90547.jpg) Thomas Paine 17 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/thomas-paine/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-ronald-reagan-81107.jpg) Ronald Reagan 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/ronald-reagan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b025/author-winston-churchill-96197.jpg) Winston Churchill 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/winston-churchill/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-george-orwell-37887.jpg) George Orwell 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/george-orwell/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alexander-hamilton-10963.jpg) Alexander Hamilton 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/alexander-hamilton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-bertrand-russell-17477.jpg) Bertrand Russell 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/bertrand-russell/) - [Aristotle 11 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-noam-chomsky-71799.jpg) Noam Chomsky 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/noam-chomsky/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-alexis-de-tocqueville-11183.jpg) Alexis de Tocqueville 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/alexis-de-tocqueville/) ## More by Plato > [Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/each-man-is-capable-of-doing-one-thing-well-if-he-attempts-several-he/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/you-may-be-sure-dear-crito-that-inaccurate-language-is-not-only-in/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/if-men-learn-this-it-will-implant-forgetfulness-in-their-souls-they/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/knowledge-which-is-acquired-under-compulsion-obtains-no-hold-on-the/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/i-do-not-think-it-is-permitted-that-a-better-man-be-harmed-by-a-worse/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/any-city-however-small-is-in-fact-divided-into-two-one-the-city-of/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/when-men-speak-ill-of-thee-live-so-as-nobody-may-believe-them/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [“The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/the-love-of-man-to-woman-is-a-thing-common-and-of-course-and-at-first/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school, and the one man that dares to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/strange-times-are-these-in-which-we-live-when-old-and-young-are/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [“He was a wise man who invented God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/he-was-a-wise-man-who-invented-god/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/for-let-me-tell-you-that-the-more-the-pleasures-of-the-body-fade-away/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [“What shall we say about those spectators, then, who can see a plurality of beautiful things, but not beauty itself, and who are incapable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/what-shall-we-say-about-those-spectators-then-who-can-see-a-plurality/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [Geometry existed before creation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/geometry-existed-before-creation/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/when-men-speak-ill-of-thee-live-so-that-nobody-will-believe-them/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) > [We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plato/we-must-if-we-are-to-be-consistent-and-if-we-re-to-have-a-real/) [Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plato/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tyranny/plato/#itemlist", "name": "7 Tyranny Quotes By Plato", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against them if they oppose him? 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