Art history Quote by Joan Stanley-Baker

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the…

— Frank Herbert

“As far as she was concerned, aristocracy had nothing to do with money or social position. Aristocracy was linked to a nobility of mind,…

— Patricia Bosworth

Rather than working for all, power and public policy is increasingly influenced by wealthy elites that are able to bend the rules - and…

— Winnie Byanyima

“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed…

— Ludwig von Mises

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the…

— Frank Herbert

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue…

— Thomas Jefferson

It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political ineffiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody…

— Anonymous

The people in the well-ordered ages of the past upheld the public law and abandoned private strategies; they focused their intentions and unified their…

— Han Fei

“Let kings estimate their prosperity, not by the righteousness, but by the servility of their subjects. Let the provinces stand loyal to the kings,…

— Augustine of Hippo

“If the human race has ever invented an institution more effective in the propagation of intellectual and ethical cripples than the nobility, I have…

— Daniel Polansky