Age Quote by Joseph Goebbels

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

— Joseph Goebbels

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

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

— Aristotle

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

Society is older than government. But every persisting society implies the existence of government and laws; for a society without government and laws is…

— William Batchelder Greene

“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

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The…

— Thomas Paine

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.

— John Quincy Adams