One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy. — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy. — Nigel Cole Copy Share Image
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“If England wants a happy, well-fed aristocracy, she mustn't have wars. She can't have it both ways.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take over. — Paul Neild Copy Share Image
Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
As you get older and more successful, you don't get magnetically drawn to aristocracy, you get magnetically drawn to power, and it… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
“There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“By and large the aristocracy was intelligent enough. The problem was that its members had no need to live by their wits.… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“She was simple, not being able to adorn herself, but she was unhappy, as one out of her class; for women belong… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“an aristocracy come to power, convinced of its own disinterested quality, believing itself above both petty partisan interest and material greed. The… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty… — Mark Twain 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
“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society took… — Violet Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
“I believe in aristocracy. . . — if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
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