Quotes of: Aristocracy Keyword

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

George Bernard Shaw

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

James Salter

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it has all the oligarchical virtues as well as all the defects. It is casual, it is kind, it is courageous in obvious matters; ...

Orthodoxy

The fate of you, the aristocracy of industry, will be as the fate of the aristocracy of land if you do not show that you have some humanity still among you.

James Larkin

Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while aristocracy oppresses another. That is a truth which establishes itself and precludes any...

Democracy in America

Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contrary, gives men a sort of instinctive distaste for what is ancient. In this respect aristocracy is far more favorable to poetry; fo...

Democracy in America

I'm not from aristocracy, or anything like that.

Michelle Dockery

We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.

Joel Kinnaman

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

Thomas Jefferson

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

Ezra Stiles

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.

Saint Francis of Assisi

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

John Legend

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

Josiah Strong

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

Algernon Sidney

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

Paloma Faith

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

Nigel Cole

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Xenophon

In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

Ellen Gilchrist

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

James Bryant Conant