Aristocracy Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the…

— David Hume

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

— Farhan Akhtar

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of…

— Edmund Burke

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

— Taylor Caldwell

Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government…

— John Jay

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

— Richard J. Needham

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are…

— Robert Payne

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but…

— Nancy Mitford

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly…

— Thomas Jefferson