Subconsciously it is possible to act, consciously it is possible to decide and overconsciously to create. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Patriotism has debilitating effects on the people who suffer from it. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Copy Share Image
The genuine dictator makes people cry not only by his life, but also by his death. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery. — Ronald Syme 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
The main export of the countries where dictatorship rules is their national leaders. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate. — James Ransone 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
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
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
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
I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business… — James D. Watson 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
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent;… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Both aristocracy and democracy are human ideals: the one saying that all men are valuable, the other that some men are more… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
“Codfish aristocracy' is what they call us. Men who've made a fortune in business, but are common-born." "Why codfish?" "It used to… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“I believe in aristocracy, though—if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power… — E. M. Forster Forster Copy Share Image
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question. From… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
