The difference between a martyr and a cannon fodder is not far from the difference between a scout and a spy. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If knowledge does not bring money, the book is its place, not the brain. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms. — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
There cannot be such thing as a hate crime against radicalism. Because radicalism itself is a hate crime. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Pseudo-intellectuals differ from real intellectuals in that they make bubbles of complex phrases. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould 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
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When people realize the majesty of the laws of nature, then they will see how far they have fallen away from the… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
If someone invites you to his religion, do not look down on him, on the contrary, you should thank him; he shares… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its… — Anonymous 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
On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single… — Baron de Montesquieu 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
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
The Senate was the equivalent of an aristocracy at the beginning. Senators were not even elected; they were appointed in the early… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Talking about freedom in the country where people are afraid of losing their jobs is absurdity. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Accuracy is not only in the home. Philosophers often bring accuracy to their thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Depending on your culture, you can make physician which treats you feel himself like a veterinarian. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The only way of the regular development is: thesis - antithesis - synthesis. Everything else is just a chimera. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence. — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
When coincidence matches with unsuccessful time and place, it is accepted as an intention. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Of course the state symbols should be respected and especially the large bills of the state. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Family is created to grow the Overman, not to continue the progeny; progeny is continued by the Overman anyway. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
