Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
The main export of the countries where dictatorship rules is their national leaders. — 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 genuine dictator makes people cry not only by his life, but also by his death. — 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
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire 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
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
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
“My son, be rich and live your own life! Tell yourself that you're the incarnation of an ancient aristocracy. Model yourself on… — Colette Copy Share Image
Person who fills his inner emptiness with positive opinions of surrounding people is like a person who has to eat hay because… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
You may not violate the rights of one human being, even if it is suggested to be done for the sake of… — Ilkin Santak 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 in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with… — Hervey Allen Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand reasons of the State? You must learn, child,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank… — John Adams 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
“We will build a society dedicated to higher ideals, and we will replace the aristocracy of money by—” “—the aristocracy of pull,”… — Ayn Rand 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
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
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent.… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape —… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Lady Sylvia McCordle: Mr Weissman -- Tell us about the film you're going to make. Morris Weissman: Oh, sure. It's called… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Thus, experience has ever shown, that education, as well as religion, aristocracy, as well as democracy and monarchy, are, singly, totally inadequate… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
