Socrates:

When a democratic city athirst for liberty gets bad cupbearers for its leaders and is intoxicated by drinking too deep of that unmixed wine, and then, if its so-called governors are not extremely mild and gentle with it and do not dispense the liberty unstintedly, it chastises them and accuses them of being accursed oligarchs.

— Socrates Ancient

Father of Western philosophy

Context

From Plato's Republic, Book 8, 562d-e, describing the excesses of democracy.

Date / Period

~375 BC

Source

https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/8t8q0a/excerpts_from_platos_republi…

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