Aristotle on Politics
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Aristotle, catalogued under Politics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Aristotle, entry #5: "At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst." Recorded year: 340 BCE.
Attributed to Aristotle, entry #67562: "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."
4 Quotes by Aristotle on Politics
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."
"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."
"Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses."
"A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange.... Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of"