Aristocracy Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

“Yet democracy is on the whole inferior to aristocracy.92 For it is based on a false assumption of equality; it “arises out of the…

— Will Durant

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

— George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that…

— Aristotle

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Aristotle’s Politics, Book III, Chapter 8 The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is between poverty and wealth. Wherever the rulers, whether they be…

— Noam Chomsky

Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the…

— Aristotle

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished…

— Samuel P. Huntington

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by…

— Thomas Hobbes

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has…

— John Adams

“At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne…

— Oswald Spengler

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich…

— Aristotle