Plato Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

  Plato

  Government, Political, Politics

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

  Plato

  Plato, War, Government

• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

  Plato

  Plato, Freedom, Men

• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

  Plato

  Witty, Plato, Cities

• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

  Plato

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

• Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

  Plato

  Plato, Democracies Have, Political

• Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom

  Plato

  Witty, Political, Politics

• That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

  Plato

  Political, Wish, Citizens

• There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

  Plato

  Kings, Philosophical, Humanity

• The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

  Plato

  Plato, Politics, Penalties

• Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

  Plato

  Philosophical, Unrest, Politics

• ... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

  Plato

  Political, Honor, Politics

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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