Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
209
AUTHOR:
Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
QUOTATION:
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
ATTRIBUTION:
ARISTOTLE, Politics, book 1, chapter 2.—Aristotle’s Politics and Poetics, trans. Benjamin Jowett and Thomas Twining, p. 5 (1952). Jowett translated Politics.
