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Tyranny

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. – Socrates.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. – Socrates.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. - Plato.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. - Plato.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. - Plato.