For that some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule.
— Aristotle Ancient

Philosopher, logic, natural science

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Politics, Book I, Chapter 5

Date / Period

c. 350 BCE

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Controversial

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https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/politics.1.1.html

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