Aristotle Quotes About Liberty

• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

  Aristotle

  Freedom, Equality, Democracies Have

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.131, Aristotle

• He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Liberty, Society

  Politics bk. 1, 1253a

• The basis of a democratic state is liberty

  Aristotle

  4th Of July, Liberty, States

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3476, Modern Library

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

  Aristotle

  Liberty, Beloved, Virtue

• And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.

  Aristotle

  Running, Lying, Two

• Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

  Aristotle

  Revenge, Men, Evil

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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