Aristocracy Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

— Isaac Asimov

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

— John Paul Stevens

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.

— Che Guevara

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

— Che Guevara

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

— Mary Ritter Beard

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

— Bertrand Russell

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

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

— Felix Rohatyn

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

— Phylicia Rashad

The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with…

— Thomas Paine