Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to… — James Kelman Copy Share Image
Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives.… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on -… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
The more religious a state is, the more it resembles its religions example of hell on the earth. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
When you think that you are free, do you pay attention to the elements of your thoughts and where have they leaked… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
“For kings indeed we have, who wear the marks and assume the titles of royalty, but as for the qualities of their… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background,… — Lytton Strachey 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
Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling. — James Salter Copy Share Image
When something looks cheap, it looks cheap and that is all, and there is no justification for this cheapness. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
You may not violate the rights of one human being, even if it is suggested to be done for the sake of… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better.… — Christa B. Allen 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
Talking about freedom in the country where people are afraid of losing their jobs is absurdity. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image