• Categories
Location |   Home >> Quotes SMS >> Author Wise Quotes >> Aristotle Quotes
  • Aristotle Quotes   1272
  • Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Government Quotes , Law Quotes
  • But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Men Quotes , Animal Quotes
  • The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Moving Quotes
  • A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Truth Quotes , History Quotes