I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. — Thomas Jefferson 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
Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
... the gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world.… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to… — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so… — James McAvoy Copy Share Image
I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The Senate was an odd compromise between the founders and the early leaders of the republic who wanted a single house which… — George Packer Copy Share Image
The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special… — John Bright Copy Share Image
We modern egalitarians are tempted to the primal sin of pride in the opposite way from the ancients. The old, aristocratic form… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome, aristocratic, ideological… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities,… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not… — Ermanno Olmi Copy Share Image
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic… — Katie McGrath Copy Share Image
Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will… — Rose Bird Copy Share Image
Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring,… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York,… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind,… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
All the people at university were very aristocratic - except me, because I was on scholarship. And everyone there voluntarily wore suits… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Occasionally, when I lived in London, I would have sex with a girl from an aristocratic family. I always enjoyed doing to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I was not interested in luxuries because I had an elegant life as a child. My family, very aristocratic, one of the… — Virginia Vallejo Copy Share Image
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