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
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Your best friends are your principles, if you havent them, dont look for another friend. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak 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
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
“Why do these big old country houses always have family portraits in the dining room? Do you really want to eat with… — Elizabeth Jane Howard 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
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence. — James Bryant Conant 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
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with… — Hervey Allen 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
I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image