"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot."
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Source: Plato, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Plato Collection [47 Books]”, p.142, Catholic Way Publishing
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