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Government Quotes by Plato
- The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
- Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
- Democracy passes into despotism.
- Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because…
- As the government is, such will be the man.
- Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and…
- A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
- ... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and…
- If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
- Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
- [Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a…
- Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
- Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike
- The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
- The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to takepart in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
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