A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
No creature but human has practiced such a meaningless cause as looking for the meaning of life. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The value of one moment of ones pleasure cannot be placed in the whole history of statehood. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Everyone has right not to recognize the sovereignty of the state and thus he has right to avoid the taxes. Human freedom… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
“...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.” — Andrea Lee Copy Share Image
Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, do not be a fanatic. Do not be a fanatic neither religious, nor ideological, nor political, neither… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Taxpayer is a person who pays for the maintenance of the state, so the phrase obligations of the citizen to the state… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“The aristocracy and the ordinary people were like different species. A commoner might rarely be elevated to nobility by acquiring great wealth… — James Essinger Copy Share Image
Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm; and where fame… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape —… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent.… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“Codfish aristocracy' is what they call us. Men who've made a fortune in business, but are common-born." "Why codfish?" "It used to… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
