Aristocracy Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aristocracy Degenerates Human species Humans Nature of man Species Tendencies
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing -… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Aristocracy is an atmosphere; it is sometimes a healthy atmosphere; but it is very hard to say when it becomes an unhealthy atmosphere. You… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I believe in aristocracy. . . — if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society. — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
Motherland is our property and we have right to handle our properties as pleased. The jokes about death for the sake of the motherland… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Your best friends are your principles, if you havent them, dont look for another friend. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A strong saying is not afraid of criticism, because it includes all the answers to criticism. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power,… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
“Why do these big old country houses always have family portraits in the dining room? Do you really want to eat with someone's gloomy… — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
