Aristocracy Quote by D. H. Lawrence

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever…

— H. L. Mencken

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

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

— George Bernard Shaw

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has…

— John Adams

“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

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is…

— Simin Behbahani

Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of…

— Walt Whitman

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name . . . Monarchy . . . has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under.…

— Adrian Goldsworthy

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton