Class Quote by Chateaubriand

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and…

— Bill Vaughan

“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. The rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”

— Pierce Brown

“The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Because it is a curious challenge for western man to distinguish between aristocracy and plutocracy, it will be his unhappy fate to struggle under…

— Tom Fahy

“The five Pillars of Aristocracy,” he argued, “are Beauty, Wealth, Birth, Genius and Virtues. Any one of the three first, can at any time,…

— Joseph J. Ellis

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

— Thomas Paine

“The nobility of age is that it conceals from the young the futility of effort.”

— Yeo-tze

“Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“I believe in aristocracy. . . — if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of…

— E. M. Forster

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“No caste system or aristocracy has survived the centuries with its power intact. Humanity kneels poorly as a whole.”

— Glynn Stewart

“Guard your integrity, attain toward maturity, develop a character of nobility, and live above mediocrity”

— Donald Pillai