"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."
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Source: Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.227, Cosimo, Inc.
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