The Republic quotes

“Socrates is detained on the road by Polemarchus and brought to his father Cephalus's house.”

“Justice, on this view, is what people would do only because they fear getting caught.”

“The point is resilience and the right relationship between body and soul.”

“Socrates answers that the city's happiness is the goal, not any class's individual happiness.”

“Just as Socrates is about to turn to the four bad regimes, Polemarchus and Adeimantus interrupt.”

“Why would we put any of them in charge of a city?”

“Behind them, a fire burns; between the fire and the prisoners, men carry objects whose shadows are cast on the wall.”

“The kallipolis (aristocracy in Plato's technical sense — rule by the best) decays predictably through four worse regimes.”

“Plato turns to the psychology of the tyrant — and through it, to the final answer to Glaucon's challenge from Book 2.”

“The poet is, on Plato's diagnosis, a teacher of bad psychology, even when (especially when) the poetry is beautiful.”