Democracy Quote by Aristotle

“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 one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and…

— Bernie Sanders

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

— Aristotle

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy…

— Aristotle

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that…

— Aristotle

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling…

— 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 difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you…

— Charles Bukowski

Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the…

— Aristotle

“Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while aristocracy oppresses…

— Alexis de Tocqueville