"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools."
"They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon."
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Source: Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen
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