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• The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Rose, Democracy

  Thomas Paine (1835). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.87

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• There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Government, Leader

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.166, Cornell University Press

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• Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The term encompasses various manifestations, including direct, participatory and representative democracy, but Governments must be responsive to people and not to special interests such as the military-industrial complex, financial bankers and transnational corporations. Democracy is inclusive and does not privilege an anthropological aristocracy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Government, People

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order". United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council, Session 24, July 01, 2013.

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• Wars are popular. Contractors make profits; the aristocracy glean honour.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  War, Profit, Contractor

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• English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Doors, English History, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.243

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• The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Poetry, Novelists, Serious

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• 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.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Government, People, Democracy

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• If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Cutting, Apples, Tree

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• The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Law, Age

  "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II, Book Two, Chapter XX, 1840.

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• I would be the last to deny that the greatest scientific pioneers belonged to an aristocracy of the spirit and were exceptionally intelligent, something that we as modest investigators will never attain, no matter how much we exert ourselves. Nevertheless ... I continue to believe that there is always room for anyone with average intelligence ... to utilize his energy and ... any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain, and that even the least gifted may, like the poorest land that has been well-cultivated and fertilized, produce an abundant harvest.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Believe, Intelligent, Men

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Feelings, Forgiving, Democracy

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation.

  Bob Saget

  People, Want, Comedy

  "Bob Saget talks dirty about The Aristocrats". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. July 25, 2005.

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• Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Democracy, Periods, Democratic

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• The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things.... It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Strong, War, Smart

  "Give War a Chance". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1992.

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• The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy.... It has become more important to be a smart kid than a good kid or even a healthy kid.

  Sam Levenson

  Children, Smart, Kids

  Sam Levenson (1966). “EVERYTHING BUT MONEY”

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• The door of opportunity swings wide open in our country. Through it, in constant flow, go those who toil. America recognizes no aristocracy save those who work. The badge of service is the sole requirement for admission to the ranks of our nobility.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Opportunity, Swings

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• They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 2, ch. 19

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• Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty.
  But total liberty leads to various forms of "aristocracy" and decay.
  Yet total equality leads to oppressive statism and decay.
  However, equality of opportunity leads to a vibrantly chaotic and creative meritocracy.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Opportunity, Creative, Liberty

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick: Revised Edition". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Kissing, Waiting, London

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• By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Names, Ideas

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.

  C. Wright Mills

  Kings, Divine Right, People

  "Character and Social Structure". Book by C. Wright Mills, 1953.

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• 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

  Two, Government, Democracy

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate.

  James Ransone

  Gratitude, Lasts, Modern

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• The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].

  Arthur Miller

  Country, Art, Laughter

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.

  Pete Seeger

  Kings, Queens, Europe

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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