Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions…there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Why do these big old country houses always have family portraits in the dining room? Do you really want to eat with… — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Felix Mersey might be the cream of the aristocracy, but in the boiler room Soap was undisputed king—grimy empire though it might… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“[Roman] society became steadily more cosmopolitan. By 212 A.D., all inhabitants of the empire, except for slaves, were deemed to be citizens.… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“The evil of aristocracy is not that it necessarily leads to the infliction of bad things or the suffering of sad ones;… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I always have to get my U.K. fix, and 'Downton Abbey' is definitely that. I absolutely love period dramas, but this one… — Estelle Copy Share Image
This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise of bourgeoisie, and… — Terre Thaemlitz Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
People can be divided into two parts: those who leave cultural heritage after themselves and those who do not leave. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Consider Ireland… You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty… — Mary Elizabeth Lease Copy Share Image
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
“If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation that it is not composed of the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The only class I'm interested in, is the class of character, determined not by blood or money, but by intent and behavior.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The distinction between pseudo-intellectual and intellectual consists in the lack of bases of pseudo-intellectuals theses, presence of dogma and authority, and pseudo-intellectuals… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“I remembered Father remarking once that if rudeness was not attributable to ignorance it could be taken as a sure sign that… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Person, who could not go through the change of ages and got stuck in the old times, is like a fish thrown… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting. — John Legend Copy Share Image
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The values imposed on you, such as statism, motherland, religion, traditions etc - are the instruments to manipulate you. Don't idolize the… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all.… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
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