politics Quotes

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves,... ...

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states... ...

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean... ...

It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern... ...