Aristocracy Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

— Henri Rousseau

“In a hyper materialist environment where everything is reduced to mere economic considerations, what we deem to be important is often trivial, a temporary…

— Cory Bernardi

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

— Joseph Joubert

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself…

— Joseph Addison

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

— Plato

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

— Anonymous

“luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God,”

— John Calvin

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk