Aristocracy Quotes

• Aristocracy is always cruel.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
  • Cruel
  • Aristocracy

• Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Spiritual
  • Religion
  • Aristocracy

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Education
  • Government
  • Discipline

• 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.

  

  Richard Parks Bland
  • Countries
  • Western
  • Absolutely

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

  

  William Dwight Whitney
  • Language
  • Politics
  • Overthrow

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

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Tyranny

• The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.

  

  Catharine Beecher
  • English
  • Institution
  • Prayer-Book

• The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Independent
  • Governments
  • Aristocracy

• Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Rule
  • Governments

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

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Democracy
  • Never
  • Forgives

• The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Tyranny
  • Kingship

• Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Age
  • Superiority
  • Aristocracy

• Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Aristocracy
  • Decrease
  • Public Behavior

• An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Support
  • Monarchy
  • Aristocracy

• We have allowed an unholy alliance of government - the new monarchy - and corporate influence - the new aristocracy - to take control of events in a way that would have made our Founders shudder.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Control
  • Government
  • Monarchy

• All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Sense
  • Agree
  • Supporters

• There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • True
  • Victory
  • Chaos

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

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Aristocracy
  • Demagogues

• To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Spirit
  • Aristocracy
  • Feudal

• Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Nobility
  • Aristocracy

• 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.

  

  James Bryant Conant
  • Performance
  • Vocation
  • Appellation

• It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

  

  Henry James Sumner Maine
  • World
  • Events
  • Possession

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

  

  Nigel Cole
  • Films
  • England
  • Aristocracy

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Work
  • Democracy
  • Aristocratic

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