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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence (Aristocracy Quotes)
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 (Aristocracy Quotes)
London is a good fashion city. They’re a little more daring. There’s the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting (Aristocracy 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 (Aristocracy Quotes)
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 (Aristocracy Quotes)
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy (Aristocracy 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 (Aristocracy Quotes)
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition (Aristocracy Quotes)
Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society (Aristocracy 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 (Aristocracy 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 (Aristocracy Quotes)
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body (Aristocracy Quotes)
The old interests of aristocracy, the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization (Aristocracy Quotes)
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country (Aristocracy Quotes)
Felix Mersey might be the cream of the aristocracy, but in the boiler room Soap was undisputed king - grimy empire though it might be (Aristocracy Quotes)
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic (Aristocracy Quotes)
In an age where public health has never been better provided for, and medical men enjoy a respect formerly reserved for the aristocracy and the clergy, millions of people are unwell, or merely feel unwell, or are in dread lest at some future time they may become unwell (Aristocracy Quotes)
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us (Aristocracy 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 (Aristocracy Quotes)
The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment (Aristocracy Quotes)
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse (Aristocracy Quotes)
A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press (Aristocracy Quotes)
Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy (Aristocracy Quotes)
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency (Aristocracy Quotes)
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy (Aristocracy Quotes)
The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder’s moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name (Aristocracy 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 (Aristocracy Quotes)
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 (Aristocracy Quotes)
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 (Aristocracy Quotes)
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 Quotes)