Aristocracy Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy…

— Ambrose Bierce

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

— William H. Gass

There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity…

— Frances O'Grady

It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail…

— Marcus Garvey

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research…

— Anonymous

We no longer live in a world that is neatly divided between rich and well-educated countries, and poor and badly-educated ones.

— Andreas Schleicher

The government is always looking for something that appears more dangerous than itself, and these criminals seem to fit the bill. Never mind that…

— Llewellyn Rockwell

It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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