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Plato quotes on democracy

Could the judges have been free, there would have been no great harm done; a musical democracy would have been well enough--but conceit has been our ruin
Source: Plato, Laws

STRANGER: Democracy alone, whether rigidly observing

the laws or not, and whether the multitude rule over the men of property with their consent or against their consent, always in ordinary language has the same name
Source: Plato, Statesman

We will compare with this the like character in the individual; and, after that, consider oligarchy and the oligarchical man; and then again we will turn our attention to democracy and the democratical man; and lastly, we will go and view the city of tyranny, and once more take a look into the tyrant's soul, and try to arrive at a satisfactory decision
Source: Plato, The Republic

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