https://ericthomasweber.org Writing on leadership, democracy, and education Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:40:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://ericthomasweber.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Cropped1-35x35.jpg https://ericthomasweber.org 32 32 111758959 https://ericthomasweber.org/quotes/on-compulsion-to-lead/ https://ericthomasweber.org/quotes/on-compulsion-to-lead/#respond Tue, 28 Jul 2015 05:13:46 +0000 etweber@gmail.com http://etweber.wp2.olemiss.edu/?post_type=quote&p=308 Good people won’t be willing to rule for the sake of either money or honor… Now, the greatest punishment, if one isn’t willing to rule, is to be ruled by someone worse than oneself. And I think that it’s fear of this that makes decent people rule when they do.

Plato Republic (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Classics, 2004), Book I, 347b–c.

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