Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
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.
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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 is always cruel.
Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity
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.
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.
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.
We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him is aristocracy.
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.
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.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches no great Universities nor public schools -- no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class -- no Epsom nor Ascot Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.
The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
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.
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.
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the world - for a cheap working slave.
Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
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