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Full Idea
Excessively authoritarian government destroys all friendship and community of spirit in the state.
Gist of Idea
Totalitarian states destroy friendships and community spirit
Source
Plato (The Laws [c.349 BCE], 697d)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.149