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Citizens Quotes by Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance…
- Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be…
- In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.
- To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.
- Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of…
- One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the…
- For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect…
- The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
- Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
- It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen…
- So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake…
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