Aristocracy Quotes

Ideology and religion are contraindicated for fanatics.

— Ilkin Santak

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Antiquity is the aristocracy of history

— Alexandre Dumas Père

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two types of egoism high and primitive.

— Ilkin Santak

The destiny of my state is not my destiny.

— Ilkin Santak

No ideology could resist capital until now.

— Ilkin Santak

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

— Moliere

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

— Anthony Trollope

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

— James Salter

Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

— Ramsay MacDonald

“That was what the season was, after all- a marriage market for the offspring of the aristocracy.”

— Marissa Doyle

ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that…

— Ambrose Bierce

The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate…

— Thomas Paine

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

Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate…

— Ilkin Santak

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

“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

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

— Rachael Stirling

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

— Aristotle

If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth,…

— George Edward Woodberry

Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is…

— Margaret Mead

“I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust through the iron gate at…

— Kelsey Brickl

I distrust Great Men... I believe in aristocracy, though... Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all…

— E. M. Forster

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters.…

— George Bernard Shaw

I mean, already in the French Revolution, the harpsichord becomes identified with the aristocracy, with the ancien regime. Plus, hey, you know,…

— Mahan Esfahani

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

— Samuel Smiles

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in…

— John Stuart Mill

“an aristocracy come to power, convinced of its own disinterested quality, believing itself above both petty partisan interest and material greed. The…

— David Halberstam

“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

“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty…

— Mark Twain

“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy…

— E.M. Forster

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

“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

To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is…

— Ernst Jünger