"Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and……" — Polybius

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• Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire
• There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. — Josh Billings
• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
• But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe… — Benjamin Carson
• Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of… — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. .… — James Bryant Conant

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