I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
Plato in The Republic
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.