Quotes by Democracy Certainly it is not a democracy. Anwar Ibrahim democracy It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition. Anwar Sadat opposition democracy suffering Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. Archibald MacLeish nations democracy done Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only, that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. Archibald MacLeish democracy done gold Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle philosophical democracy historical Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny. Aristotle republic democracy giving A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government. Aristotle democracy government class No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself. Aristotle injustice democracy citizens The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number. Aristotle democracy government numbers 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. Aristotle democracies-have democracy power Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers. Aristotle democracy form government Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority. Aristotle majority democracy struggle Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few. Aristotle oligarchy democracy government Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy. Aristotle democracy government two The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy. Aristotle democracy government character The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. Aristotle aristocracy democracy government A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. Aristotle democracy men hands 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. Aristotle excess democracy people The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity. Aristotle democracy political numbers A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy. Aristotle oligarchy democracy weak «56789101112131415»