Quotes about Aristocracy

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Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes. — John Keats
Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy, on the contr — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty outpourings of loya — Mark Twain
We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We d — Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if they do not bring on — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,' people at last pre — Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election mus — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Power is always personal: any study of a Western democratic leader today reveals that, even in a transparent system with — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918
Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of t — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his ears sinister pro — Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
I was scarcely the first, nor the only current, girl of impressive derivation to be unceremoniously thrust through the i — Kelsey Brickl, Paint
Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We al — James Kelman
We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical si — Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment
As every good marxist already knows, the ideological shift toward a terminally optimistic humanism was vital to the rise — Terre Thaemlitz, Nuisance - Writings on identity jamming & digital audio production
[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society t — Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a f — Eugene V. Debs
The only thing for what you are bound is to be in your limit. — Haseeb Ch
The good thing about the aristocracy – German or English – was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought. — Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog
Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of it. 'If it was do — Leo Tolstoy, After the Ball