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Gʀɛɛk ʍɨռɨatʊʀɛs: Dɛʍօƈʀaƈʏ ɨs a ʝօᏦe.քռɢ *ʟaʊɢɦs ɨռ ɢʀɛɛk*

“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
— Socrates, The Republic

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Socrates, The Republic

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Socrates, The Republic

“Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against them if they oppose him? So the tyrant is a parricide, and little comfort to his old parent.”
― Socrates, The Republic