“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
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
Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding. — Aristotle 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
No matter who you are, do not be a fanatic. Do not be a fanatic neither religious, nor ideological, nor political, neither… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
“...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
But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United]… — John Bright Copy Share Image
“What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Taxpayer is a person who pays for the maintenance of the state, so the phrase obligations of the citizen to the state… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Manipulation of mass consciousness is based on the percolation of the required ideas under the values widespread in society. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Person who does not feel every cell of his body and who does not find his soul in every cell of his… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I became obnoxious to the Jacobins because I reprobated their aristocracy, which aimed at usurping all legitimate authority. — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated with aristocracy. I'm really interested in the Ivy Leagues, the final clubs, all the really old-money families, the… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Thing for masses does not have a soul. Everything for masses is designed for stamped people with wooden heads. Wood is not… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
There is no necessity to beware of atheist, beware of that believer who once finds out that god does not exist and… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“The five Pillars of Aristocracy,” he argued, “are Beauty, Wealth, Birth, Genius and Virtues. Any one of the three first, can at… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on -… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If citizen is legally forced to recognize the sovereignty of the state - there cannot be any speech about freedom. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate. — James Ransone Copy Share Image