Aristocracy Quotes

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.

Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.

Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Isn't it true that every aristocrat wants to die?

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

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

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism.

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

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

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

Aristocracy is a relative thing. And there are plenty of out-of-the-way places where the son of an upholsterer is the arbiter of fashion and reigns over a court like any young Prince of Wales.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.

I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.

One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.