Aristocracy Quotes
225 Aristocracy quotes by 102 unique authors
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
— Wendell Phillips
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A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the…
— Thomas Hobbes
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I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch…
— Andrew Jackson
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The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of…
— Henry George
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All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit,…
— Aristotle
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Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the…
— Ayn Rand
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Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
— Josiah Strong
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The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.
— Richard P. Bland
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity…
— Ralph Adams Cram
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In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of…
— Ralph Adams Cram
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Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a…
— Bob Saget
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I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to…
— Bob Saget
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The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared…
— Thomas Paine
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No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles,…
— Henry James
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I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
— Paloma Faith
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I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was…
— Joseph Goebbels
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You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but…
— Mark Twain
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
— John Milton
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There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard.…
— Nelson DeMille
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Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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