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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: D. K. G. who wrote (10619)3/6/2004 10:51:45 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 10965
 
"For every city (state), 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." --Plato "The Republic IV"

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DKG,

Thanks for doubling my Plato quotes collection. :)

The quote you've provided is a hell of a lot more pithy. In the 20th Century it was masterfully updated by Henry Mencken:

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." --H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)