rulers Quotes

Both rulers who are few (oligarchs) and oppressive rulers (tyrants) distrust the people, so they take away their weapons.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

Democracy is when the poor, not the wealthy, are the rulers.

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

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for... ...

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.