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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 565
AUTHOR: Plato (427?–347 B.C.)
QUOTATION: The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to PLATO on the letterhead of the Constitution Party. Unverified.

The Constitution Party was founded in 1952 and ceased in 1968, according to Edward L. and Frederick H. Schapsmeier, Political Parties and Civil Action Groups, pp. 122–23 (1981). See also Evil.
SUBJECTS: Evil