Quotes About Society

and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch, not being controlled by law, aims at sole power and becomes like a master.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

Man is a political animal. A man who lives alone is either a Beast or a God

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

The Ideal age for marriage in men is 35. The Ideal age for marriage in women is 18

The man who is isolated, who is unable to share in the benefits of political association, or has no need to share because he is already self-sufficient, is no part of the polis, and must therefore be either a beast or a god.

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

But justice is the bond of men in states, for the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society.

All who have meditated upon the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depend upon the education of youth.

He who is a citizen in a democracy will often not be a citizen in an oligarchy.

If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law & justice he is the worst.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

the fact that it took the rise of democracies and otherwise open societies at Athens and elsewhere to create the climate in which public eloquence became a political indispensability.

Human beings are by nature political animals

And therefore, if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the [completed] nature is the end. For what each thing is when fully developed, we call its nature, whether we are speaking of a man, a horse, or a family. Besides, the final cause and end of a thing is the best, and to be self-sufficing is the end and the best.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends.

As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.

exhaust the public revenues by giving pay for the performance of public duties; we must prevents the growth of a pauper

What a society honors will be cultivated.

Man, if perfected is the best of all animals but when isolated he is the worst of all

Correct habituation distinguishes a good political system from a bad one.