In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission…

“In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

— Brad Holland

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of…

— Lytton Strachey

When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic…

— John Dewey

You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray…

— Henry Miller

“He admired her for throwing off her aristocratic shackles -- his terms, that -- and making her own way in the world. He didn't…

— Lauren Willig

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls.…

— Katie McGrath

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

— Henry Adams

“The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the features that…

— Marcel Proust

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and…

— Marshall McLuhan

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary…

— Bertrand Russell

Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing…

— Walter Lippmann

Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuroses…

— Lawrence Douglas

“I have an aristocratic smile and like to punch people.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer