Politics Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

“Beyond these there is a miserable crowd, indigent, without political rights, of no weight in the city, envious, full of hatred, and condemned by…

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

“No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had…

— Rami Ollaik

In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“It is no good for rulers if the people they rule cherish ambitions for themselves or form strong bonds of friendship with one another.”

— Plato

“The arrogance of wealth and the dejection of wretchedness, capital cities of unwonted extent, a lax morality, a vulgar egotism, and a great confusion…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

— Sophocles

“Every human being and every society is what it is by virtue of the highest to which it looks up. The city, if it…

— Leo Strauss

“A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed.”

— Albert Camus

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in…

— Euripides

“at times the city can feel self-satisfied, even solipsistic,”

— Barry Eisler

“A city which belongs to just one man is no true city”

— Sophocles