Aristocracy Quote by Thomas Paine

There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

— Gautama Buddha

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

— Thomas Paine

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

— Barbara Mertz

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

— Thomas Jefferson

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

— Josh Billings

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

— Boethius

“Noble natures cannot dwell in this world,”

— Honoré de Balzac

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

— Gautama Buddha

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

— John Lancaster Spalding