Aristocracy Quote by Lord Acton

Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.

— Polybius

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

Democracy passes into despotism.

— Plato

Power always becomes consolidated back into the hands of very few people... whether they be an economic aristocracy, a royalty, a monarchy which is…

— Immortal Technique

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

— Aristotle

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in…

— John Adams

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

“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 form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle withing which…

— Will Durant

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

— Lord Acton