Plato Quotes about Democracy

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Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Plato

Philosophical, Historical, Democracy

Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.448, Xist Publishing

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Plato

Law, Democracy, Letters

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

Plato

Government, Democracy, Mob Rule

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.

Plato

Hands, Office, Democracy

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Plato

Democracy, Idlers, Bees

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

Plato

Plato, Democracy, Equal

Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

Plato

Greed, Democracy, Excess

Plato (1963). “The Republic”

Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

Plato

Freedom, Democracy, Glory

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”