'Well, even you must know that cities are governed either as tyrannies, democracies, or aristocra...

'Well, even you must know that cities are governed either as tyrannies, democracies, or aristocracies. Of course, I said. And that the government in each has the power... Well, each government frames laws for its own advantage, a democracy for democrats, a tyranny for tyrants, and so on. In so legislating, the rulers represent this - their own advantage - as justice for their subjects, and anyone who breaks their laws is punished as a lawbreaker and a criminal. Therefore I contend that justice is the same thing in every state: the advantage of the established ruling class. And since that presumably is the stronger class, anyone with a brain can calculate that justice is the same thing everywhere - the advantage of the stronger.' (The Republic, Book 1) https://blossom.primal.net/30f07c6e679e12794cc983a70732445f863f5f1b601de5f09894723bb3b6496f.mp4