And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The true charity is not giving bread or money, but providing employment. — Ilkin Santak 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
The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat. — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
“There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take over. — Paul Neild Copy Share Image
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Taxpayer is a person who pays for the maintenance of the state, so the phrase obligations of the citizen to the state… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves.… — Joseph Goebbels 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
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
“...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ’76 now look… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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
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
“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
“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“an aristocracy come to power, convinced of its own disinterested quality, believing itself above both petty partisan interest and material greed. The… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
