Aristocracy Quote by William Dwight Whitney

The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of…

— Nicos Poulantzas

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.

— Robin Morgan

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“authoritarian institutions, such as governments and churches, do not use language but jargon, repetitive phrases that are not supposed to have meaning but merely…

— Norman Cantor

Only in England is the perversion of language regarded as a victory for democracy.

— Anthony Burgess

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

— Hu Shih

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of…

— Anonymous

Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is…

— Sheila Rowbotham

“A language is the joint historical creation of millions of speakers. Although all speakers have some effect on the trajectory of a language, the…

— James C. Scott