They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“...As for all the little people who call themselves Marquis de Cambremerde or de Gotoblazes, there is no difference between them and… — Marcel Proust 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
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive justice are corrupted at… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
You are your own temple and you find tranquility being confined to yourself. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We are going to the Overman, but the Overman is not the goal, because as we become Him, we go to the… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Are the entire people equal before the god? I do not know. But all gods are equal before the human being, especially… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Thing for masses does not have a soul. Everything for masses is designed for stamped people with wooden heads. Wood is not… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
