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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato
Plato, War, Government

A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

Plato
War, Order, Tyrants
Plato (2012). “The Republic and Other Works”, p.260, Anchor

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

Plato
Money, War, Sake

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Plato
Plato, War, Cities
Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.252, Penguin

Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

Plato
Military, War, Educational

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Plato
Peace, War, Heart

And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

Plato
Children, War, Sleep
Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

Only the dead will know the end of the war.

Plato
Military, War, Army

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

Plato
Peace, War, Tyrants

Any peace is better than any war

Plato
War

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

Plato
Love, Money, War

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.

Plato
War, Fighting, People
Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.121, e-artnow

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