All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Consider Ireland… You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
People can be divided into two parts: those who leave cultural heritage after themselves and those who do not leave. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical… — James Madison Copy Share Image
All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“...As for all the little people who call themselves Marquis de Cambremerde or de Gotoblazes, there is no difference between them and… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Aristocracy of the soul cannot be denied because of the blind equality. We can get lost due to ideas about equality. If… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago... they're like rock… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority. — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Thing for masses does not have a soul. Everything for masses is designed for stamped people with wooden heads. Wood is not… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Person who does not feel every cell of his body and who does not find his soul in every cell of his… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Manipulation of mass consciousness is based on the percolation of the required ideas under the values widespread in society. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“The five Pillars of Aristocracy,” he argued, “are Beauty, Wealth, Birth, Genius and Virtues. Any one of the three first, can at… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on -… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
There is no necessity to beware of atheist, beware of that believer who once finds out that god does not exist and… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Power always becomes consolidated back into the hands of very few people... whether they be an economic aristocracy, a royalty, a monarchy… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
I always have to get my U.K. fix, and 'Downton Abbey' is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one… — Estelle Copy Share Image
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
But to some extent, the whole aspect of Fascism was a real hot potato. Because so many of the aristocracy were enamored… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
