Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or… — Aristotle
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.
Source: Wikiquote · CC BY-SA 4.0
More from this book
Those who cannot face danger like men are the slaves of any invader.
Subjects are also kept poor by payment of taxes.
It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poor, so that he may be able to afford the cost of his bodyguard, while the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.
