There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class.
Aristocracy Quotes
Aristocracies never believed in cheap weaponry when it came along. What could make an aristocrat reach for the smelling salts faster than the idea of a whole population armed to the teeth with an affordable means for killing them all?… There are times when military technology is expensive and there are times when it is […]
An aristocracy must constantly justify its existence. In other words, there must be no artificial conversion of its present strength into perpetual rights. The way must be always open for the admission of strong men from the lower orders, and the way must be always open, too, for the expulsion of men whose strength fails.
What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
Honor is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall porters.
