But those who obey the rulers it reviles as willing slaves and men of naught, but it commends and honors in public and private rulers who resemble subjects and subjects who are like rulers. Is it not inevitable that in such a state the spirit of liberty should go to all lengths?
— Socrates Ancient

Father of Western philosophy

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From Plato's Republic, Book 8, 563d, on the breakdown of order in democracy.

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~375 BC

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