Subconsciously it is possible to act, consciously it is possible to decide and overconsciously to create. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
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
Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat. — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle 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
The old generations have thrown themselves into the abyss between the generations... to be resurrected among the young generations! — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Any political regime allowing a person to behave obsequiously to it may not be reputable at all. There is no other choice… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
It is better to kill the barbarian during his coming than to tell your children that there was culture, but the barbarians… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we do… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . .… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever… — Lorde Copy Share Image
This regard for the liberties of Europe, this care at one time for the protestant interest, this excessive love for the balance… — John Bright Copy Share Image
“No one seems to realise that the aristocracy is God’s special gift to mankind. The burghers treat us no better than commoners.… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must… — D. H. Lawrence 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
Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the… — Michael Parenti 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 would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“ Lady Sylvia McCordle: Mr Weissman -- Tell us about the film you're going to make. Morris Weissman: Oh, sure. It's called… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams Copy Share Image
As to the Income Tax, my opinion is that the needful revenue would be fairly and most fairly raised if paid by… — John Bright Copy Share Image
“The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the… — Marcel Proust 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