In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
AristotleThe life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.
AristotleOf 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.
AristotleThose that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.
Aristotle