Democracy eventually degenerates into tyranny where no one has discipline and society exists in chaos. Democracy is taken over by the longing for freedom. Power must be seized to maintain order. A champion will come along and experience power, which will cause him to become a tyrant. The people will start to hate him and eventually try to remove him but will realize they are not able.

The tyrannical man is the son of the democratic man. He is the worst form of man. He is consumed by lawless desires which cause him to do many terrible things such as murdering someone unjustly. He comes closest to complete lawlessness. The idea of moderation does not exist to him. He is consumed by the pleasures in life. He spends all of his money and becomes poor and leads a miserable life.

When Plato says the tyrant is a prisoner to the lawless master he means that if the tyrant should lose his power for any reason his life and the life of his family would be in great danger. The tyrant always runs the risk of being killed in revenge for all the unjust things he has done. He becomes afraid to leave his own home and becomes trapped inside. Therefore his lawless behavior leads to his own self-imprisonment.

- Plato's Five Regimes

In an autocracy,
one person has his way;
in an aristocracy,
a few people have their way;
in a democracy, no one has his way.
(Celia Green)

Embarassment

"There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything."
(Fran Lebowitz)

"Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed."
(Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: Science and Practice)

"Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment."
(Will Self)

"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough."
(Alain De Botton)

"Hell hath no fury like a man embarrassed by a woman."
(J.R. Rain, Vampire Dawn)

"Mike Leigh is a legendary figure in modern British theater for his plays and television films that mercilessly dissect the British class system, using as their weapon the one emotion the British fear most, embarrassment."
(Roger Ebert)

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
(Oscar Wilde)

"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
(Benjamin Franklin)

"There is a lust
in man no
charm can tame:
Of loudly publishing
his neighbor's shame:

On eagles wings
immortal scandals fly,
while virtuous actions
are born and die."
(William Harvey)

Accusation

"When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour."
(Piers Anthony)

"As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated in heaven and sea. He stands unmoved."
(Marcus Tullius Cicero)

"I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation."
(Bob Costas)

"No crime is so great as daring to excel."
(Winston Churchill)

"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."
(Ronald Reagan)

"The worst crime is faking it."
(Kurt Cobain)

"Fear follows crime and is its punishment."
(Voltaire)

"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."
(Will Rogers)

"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed."
(Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)

"Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society."
(Clint Eastwood)

"A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth."
(Patrick Murray)