Plato Quotes About War
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Any peace is better than any war
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Only the dead have seen the end of war.
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Only the dead will know the end of the war.
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People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.
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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
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All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.
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Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
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A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
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Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.
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