The state is a creation of nature and man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. — 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
A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to… — 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
Democracy arose from mans thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. — 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
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
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
...the life which is best for men, both separately, as individuals, and in the mass, as states, is the life which has… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The man who is isolated, who is unable to share in the benefits of political association, or has no need to share… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Hence it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal. And… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — 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
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
Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn. — 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
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 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
Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political… — 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
Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — 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
