Republic, Books 9-10 Quotes

“The only thing he ought to consider, if he does anything, is whether he does right or wrong , whether it is what a good man does or a bad man.”
― Plato, Republic, Books 9-10

“Then if the people are willing to yield , well and good; but if not, he will treat the city as the man did the mother and father:
he will import new comrades and chastise it if he can; he will keep and maintain his own fatherland and once dear motherland, as the Cretans call it, in slavery under these foreigners.
So this will be the final consummation of such a man's desire.”
― Plato, Republic, Books 9-10