Aristocracy

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

- H. Auden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

- Oliver Goldsmith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

- John Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Josiah Strong Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Xenophon Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

- George Nathan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Every one is free to become whatever he can make of himself free to transform himself from a rail splitter or a tanner or a canal-boy, into the nation's President. Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers. Wealth, position, influence, are prizes offered for energy and every farmer's boy, every apprentice and clerk, every friendless and penniless immigrant, is free to enter the lists.

- Josiah Strong Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries the aristocracy, of idols the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy it can only worship the national idols.

- George Bernard Shaw Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

- Hervey Allen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

- P. J. O'Rourke Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

England's national debt would not be so great an evil as it now appears to us, if England's aristocracy would concede that this burden should be borne by the class who were benefited by the cost of wars, namely, by the rich.

- Friedrich List Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Algernon Sydney Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- James Conant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.

- Georg Hegel Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The proponents of estate tax repeal are fond of calling it the 'death tax'. It's not a death tax, it's a Rich Kids' tax. The estate tax is one of our time-tested and best tools in preventing the aristocracy of an 'Old Europe' from establishing itself on our shores.

- Bill Foster Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They were amazing characters to play. It was really the aristocracy of writers. Most of the writers I've worked with since then came out of that school.

- Ted Danson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent.

- Michael Young Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- G. K. Chesterton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

- Mercy O. Warren Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

- Nancy Mitford Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Aristocracy is always cruel.

- Wendell Phillips Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Ralph A. Cram Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Lords are lordliest in their wine.

- John Milton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.... There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation.

- Dr. James Bryant Conant Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes