للشعب دائمًا بطلٌ يولّيه أمره ويرعاه حتى يبلغ العظمة. وهذا، لا غيره، هو الجذر الذي ينبت منه الطاغية؛ فهو حين يظهر أول مرة يكون حاميًا.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”Plato — Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study (1967)
