Democracy Quote by Aristotle

“Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man…

— Irwin Edman

“In early Greek society, particularly in Athens, democracy meant the equivalent of a permanent town meeting—all decisions of consequence were made in public assembly.…

— David H. Maister

“Athens was ripped from their wealth and territory but their culture still lived on. This now engraved upon your memory, what decision shall you…

— Anonymous

“We cultivate refinement without extravagance and knowledge without effeminacy; wealth we employ more for use than for show, and place the real disgrace of…

— Pericles

“Topographic conditions were the foundation of Greek democracy, just as those of a different kind gave rise to the Oriental despotisms of Egypt and…

— James Dale Davidson

“Several times the ancient Greeks attempted to utilize democratic mass participation in governing their city-states, but each time it resulted in tyranny. As the…

— Ben Carson

“Athens, or Greece in general, was a virile world; like the Roman Empire. But I can't understand the idea that it is the greatest…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in…

— Barack Obama

“We certainly face, as did the ancient Greeks, the problem of oligarchy—ever more threatening as globalization increases differences in wealth.”

— Timothy Snyder

The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised…

— Tariq Ali

“As you can imagine, the wandering Sophists created bitter wrangling in Athens by pointing out that there were no absolute norms for what was…

— Jostein Gaarder

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

— H. G. Wells