Aristocracy Quotes · Page 8

Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;…

— Samuel Smiles

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

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

— Kenneth Rexroth

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

— Thomas Paine

Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the…

— Michael Parenti

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will…

— W. H. Auden

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

— Thomas Jefferson

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that…

— Chuck D

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

— John B. S. Haldane

But to some extent, the whole aspect of Fascism was a real hot potato. Because so many of the aristocracy were enamored…

— Jacqueline Winspear

If citizen is legally forced to recognize the sovereignty of the state - there cannot be any speech about freedom.

— Ilkin Santak

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

— Harold Pinter

I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be…

— Thomas Jefferson

The values imposed on you, such as statism, motherland, religion, traditions etc - are the instruments to manipulate you. Don't idolize the…

— Ilkin Santak

“He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.”

— Henry James

The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.

— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by…

— Robert Reich

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

— Gene Kelly

If someone invites you to his religion, do not look down on him, on the contrary, you should thank him; he shares…

— Ilkin Santak

Everyone has his own need for public and therefore public should not be artificially imposed on a person.

— Ilkin Santak

The Senate was the equivalent of an aristocracy at the beginning. Senators were not even elected; they were appointed in the early…

— Rush Limbaugh

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

I haven't seen any healthy ideology trying to change the world. It doesn't need to change the world; those who change the…

— Ilkin Santak