Aristocracy Quotes

225 Aristocracy quotes by 102 unique authors

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations. — Thomas Jefferson
Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses. — Charles A. Beard
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place… — Lytton Strachey
Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy. — Bertrand Russell
The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from… — Aristotle
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence. — James Bryant Conant
Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God. — Ambrose
To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what… — Rupert Murdoch
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
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or… — James Kelman
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of… — Vilfredo Pareto
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. — Ezra Stiles
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles
A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never be anything but… — Walter Martin
The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness. — D. H. Lawrence
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and… — Hervey Allen
Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics. — Unknown Author
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in… — Nancy Mitford
Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to… — Tacitus
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law… — Henry James Sumner Maine
Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy, — R.J. Rushdoony
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for… — Denis Kearney
Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity — Thomas Jefferson

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