Ochlocracy
- Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy, Book I, Chapter II – Of the Various Kinds of Government: "Desiring, therefore, to discuss the nature of the government of Rome, and to ascertain the..."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Social Contract, Section 256: "When the State dissolves, the abuse of Government, whatever it might be, takes the common..."