Aristocracy Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“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

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

But democracy needs structure to work, in the form of laws and policies.

— Katty Kay

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants…

— Anonymous

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

— Peggy Noonan

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by…

— Thomas Hobbes

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

— John Allen Fraser

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte