Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy, — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
If you are insulted for your sarcasm, that means you hit the target you killed the person you mocked on. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
You do not have to obey the law you did not sign under, until you hurt anyone. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title.… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. — Aristotle 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
The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of the men who have done… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
“I say, you don't know how I could raise fifty quid somehow, do you?" "Why don't you work?" "Work?" said young Bingo,… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which,… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In France those absurd perversions of the art of war which covered themselves under the name of chivalry were more omnipotent than… — Charles William Chadwick Oman Copy Share Image
“Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“If the human race has ever invented an institution more effective in the propagation of intellectual and ethical cripples than the nobility,… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
“Wait, wait,' he began, interrupting Oblonsky. 'Aristocratism, you say. But allow me to ask, what makes up this aristocratism of Vronsky or… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Conceiv'd out of the fullest heat and pulse of European feudalism -personifying ill unparalleled ways the medieval aristocracy, its towering spirit of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Laws were made to establish a gradation of ranks; but it was soon found that the soil of America was opposed to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image