I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie… — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind,… — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance.… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]...… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive… — Gordon S. Wood 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
It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
Occasionally, when I lived in London, I would have sex with a girl from an aristocratic family. I always enjoyed doing to… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
I liked being Doc Holliday. It's fun to be insightful and aristocratic, to stand up for your friend and make sacrifices for… — Val Kilmer 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'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's… — Katie McGrath Copy Share Image
In the work of the greatest geniuses, humble beginnings will reveal themselves somewhere, but one cannot trace the slightest sign of them… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
If you're smart enough you realise that your possessions possess you in their turn. Collecting has a neurotic aspect. I find it… — Thomas Koerfer Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that sorrow brings one down in the world. The aristocratic privilege of silence belongs, you soon find out,… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
In any piece of rhetorical discourse, one rhetorical term overcomes another rhetorical term only by being nearer to the term which stands… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities,… — Marina Warner 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