The Debate On the State's Future
"There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of states, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just."
- The Republic, Plato
"You are trying to create a perfect kingdom in the unperfect world, like the one being depicted in De Republica by Plato, aren't you?"
"I don't understand what you are talking about, your holiness."
"…The book described a concept to us a kind of philosophical… political concept that every thing in the state is being run in an orderly manner, with no exception occurring. Every citizen of this imaginary kingdom knows what they are supposed to do and what they can do, every thing is maintained with an absolute order, just and equality… Let me put it like this, you heard of the recent concept that people are talking about called 'Eutopia'?"
"… You are not trying to condemn the way I run the state, aren't you?"