Socrates — "The State demands the strong wine of freedom, and unless her rulers give her a p…"

The State demands the strong wine of freedom, and unless her rulers give her a plentiful draught, punishes and insults them; equality and fraternity of governors and governed is the approved principle. Anarchy is the law, not of the State only, but of private houses, and extends even to the animals.
Socrates — Socrates Ancient · Father of Western philosophy

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From Plato's Republic, Book 8, 562c-d, describing the path to anarchy in democracy.

Date: ~375 BC

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