A bit of Politics
“It is clear, then, that a state exists by nature and is prior to each [of its parts] … and one who cannot associate with others or does not need association with others because of self-sufficiency is no part of a state but is either a brute or a God.”
– Aristotle, Politics, 1253a26-29 (translated by Hippocrates Apostle, Peripatetic Press 1986)
