Aristocracy Quote by 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

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

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or…

— Aristotle

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

— Aristotle

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the…

— Frank Herbert

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

— B. R. Ambedkar

“Aristotle’s Politics, Book III, Chapter 8 The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is between poverty and wealth. Wherever the rulers, whether they be…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— John Allen Fraser

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

— John Dewey

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according…

— Aeschines