A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat. — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
The true charity is not giving bread or money, but providing employment. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
As you get older and more successful, you don't get magnetically drawn to aristocracy, you get magnetically drawn to power, and it… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
“...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.” — Andrea Lee Copy Share Image
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy,… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
Christians believe themselves to be the aristocracy of heaven upon earth, they are admitted to the spiritual court, while millions of men… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
I think that, often, actors represent what they're not. You get people who define the aristocracy who are not aristocratic - they're… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves.… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“No one seems to realise that the aristocracy is God’s special gift to mankind. The burghers treat us no better than commoners.… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“ 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
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
In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“an aristocracy come to power, convinced of its own disinterested quality, believing itself above both petty partisan interest and material greed. The… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
“It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loyalty… — Mark Twain 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
