"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
~ Aristotle ~
Photo by Ákos Szabó
Photo by Ian Turnell
More Aristotle quotes
"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of governmen...
"Persuasion is achieved by the speaker's personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more ful...
"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be a...
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in gover...
"It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this be...
"Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by je...
"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it ...
"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good...
"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
"There are three kinds of constitution, and an equal number of deviation-forms--perversions, as it were, of them. The constitutions are monarchy, arist...
"But of all the things which I have mentioned that which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form...
"When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the law...