Autocracy Quote by Aeschines

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy,…

— Aristotle

There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government,…

— Aristotle

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny,…

— Aristotle

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich…

— Aristotle

All systems are oligarchy. There is no other.

— Tom Metzger

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

— Anonymous

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

— B. R. Ambedkar

Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the legal system,…

— Mario Bunge

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

— Anonymous

The government, which is the supreme authority in states, must be in the hands of one, or of a few, or of the many.…

— Aristotle (384â323 BC

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

— Jose Saramago

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

— John Allen Fraser