"It is no longer simply the merchant prince,……" — Howard Zinn

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• Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're… — Margaret Atwood
• What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. — Charles Baudelaire
• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
• I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this… — Helena Bonham Carter
• Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. — Richard Cobden
• Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing… — Rose Bird
• Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists… — Eugene V. Debs
• America has been a land of dreams. A land where the aspirations of people from countries cluttered with rich, cumbersome,… — Daniel J. Boorstin
• We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love… — David Brooks
• Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the… — Theodor Herzl
• Slavery is malignantly aristocratic. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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