Aristocracy Quotes

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A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.

And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.

Lords are lordliest in their wine.

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate.

I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends.

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.