Aristotle Quotes on Democracy

5 quotes

  1. 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 the government to the utmost.

    #26 IV.1291b34
  2. The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

    #31 VI.1317a40
  3. 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 absolutely equal.

  4. Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

  5. 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.

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