People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.
PlatoThe laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals
PlatoThe soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below.
PlatoThe form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.
Plato