Aliens Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that…

— Desmond Tutu

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

“Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while aristocracy oppresses…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

— Thomas Jefferson

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the…

— Marquis de Lafayette

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.

— Marco Rubio

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the…

— Frank Herbert

Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot…

— Gunnar Myrdal

The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with…

— Thomas Paine