Aristotle Quotes on Power
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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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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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.