A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude?… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
