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Oligarchy Quotes by Aristotle
- Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from…
- The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from…
- 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 when…
- All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit,…
- 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…
More Oligarchy Quotes
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place… — Thomas Jefferson
- Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of… — George Washington
- Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to… — Henry James Sumner Maine
- No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can… — John Dewey
- In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the… — Edward Abbey
- Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism… — Aristotle
- . . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the… — Susan B. Anthony
- Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius
- The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from… — Aristotle
- A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government,… — Aristotle