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“The King ruled in consultation with his chief nobles, who fromed the nucleus of what was in effect a military aristocracy, whose power was…

— Alison Weir

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because…

— Julie Burchill

“High on a throne of royal state, which far”

— John Milton

“frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism…

— Isaac Asimov

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

— Gianni Versace

“Kingship was the supreme form of government, and was believed to be in the natural order of things. It did not need physical strength…

— Julius Evola

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by…

— George Orwell

The days of noblesse oblige are long behind us, so our elite's entire claim to legitimacy rests on theories of equal opportunity and upward…

— Ross Douthat

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his…

— James F. Cooper

The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of…

— Malcolm Gladwell