Aristocracy Quote by Xenophon

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

— Aristotle

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

— James Madison

It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over…

— Robert Bellarmine

Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy men. But…

— Milton Friedman

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which…

— Rufus Choate

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

— Plutarch

ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy…

— Ambrose Bierce

“The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each individual man…

— Michel de Montaigne

“when Dandamys the Wise heard accounts of the lives of Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes, he said that they were in every way great personalities,…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Aristotle