| This happens because of the treasuries of gold that the individuals in the timocracy have. |
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| These days we have moved on from a timocracy, but you'll still find plenty examples of the John Jay mentality here. |
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| It has similar features to timocracy, but it is different to it in many ways. |
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| One answer may be that if you want a knowledge society, then it should preferably be a democracy, not a timocracy, an oligarchy or an intellectual dictatorship. |
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| Democracy and its perversion, timocracy, are both characterized by the rule of the majority, and all who have the property qualification count as equals. |
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| This conception of democracy is broad enough to include even variants of timocracy. |
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| Even the timocracy and oligarchy, for all their flaws, have public standards for value. |
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| Similarly, the Almoravid and Almohad states are shown to have deteriorated from a state that resembled the original perfect Sharīʿah state into timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny. |
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| Socrates argues that these are not genuine aristocracies, because neither timocracy nor oligarchy manages to check the greed that introduces injustice and strife into cities. |
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| Historically prevalent forms of government include aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny. |
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| In the timocracy, for example, nothing checks the rulers from taking money to be a badge of honor and feeding their appetites, which grow in private until they cannot be hidden anymore. |
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