Aristotle Quotes About Office

• Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

  Aristotle

  Government, Discipline, Office

• It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

  Aristotle

  Long, Office, Easy

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.180, Aristotle

• There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.

  Aristotle

  Loyalty, Government, Justice

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

• That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Judging, Office

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1270b.39,

• To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

  Aristotle

  Hands, Errors, Giving

• 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.

  Aristotle

  Government, Law, Office

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3114, Delphi Classics

• Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Order, Law

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

• The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

  Aristotle

  Law, Organization, Office

  Aristotle, Hugh Griffith (2009). “Aristotle”, p.273, Collector's Library

• Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

  Aristotle

  Men, Office, Want

  Aristotle (2016). “Pocket Aristotle”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

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