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
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
English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate. — James Ransone Copy Share Image
Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Everyone has right not to recognize the sovereignty of the state and thus he has right to avoid the taxes. Human freedom… — 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
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 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
“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
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There is hardly any political question in the United States that sooner or later does not turn into a judicial question. From… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I believe in aristocracy. . . — if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society took… — Violet Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“A true natural aristocracy is not a separate interest in the state, or separable from it. It is an essential integrant part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling. — James Salter Copy Share Image
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour. — Ramsay MacDonald Copy Share Image
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image