Aristocracy Quotes - Page 8

• I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Virginia, Foundation

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• Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

  Gene Kelly

  Proletariat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.

  Harriet Martineau

  America, Republic, Birth

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.117

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• Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away.

  Harriet Martineau

  Hope, Fear, Government

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• Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people's sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Cheater, People, Historical

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• The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Men, People

  Benjamin Disraeli's speech at the Printing Trade Festival, 1845.

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• I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.

  Paloma Faith

  Thinking, Proud, British

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• If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Mean, Race, Ideas

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Wisdom, Real, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2169, Library of Alexandria

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• There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

  Nelson DeMille

  Book, Long, Majority

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• Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

  Mark Twain

  Rhode Island, Islands, Speak

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.418, Univ of California Press

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

  Nigel Cole

  Class, England, Film

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• The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Law, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.426, Penguin

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• As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.

  Christopher Bollen

  Thinking, Climbing, Murder Mysteries

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, People, Ambitious

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• Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in Third World nations be overcome if a new system is to prevail.

  Michael Parenti

  Order, Broken, Overcoming

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• The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Office, May

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

  George Washington

  Rights, Government, Long

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• There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.

  Frances Wright

  Country, Ignorance, People

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.55

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• The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Government, Class, Democracy

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

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• It may be a mere patriotic bias, though I do not think so, but it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it has all the oligarchical virtues as well as all the defects. It is casual, it is kind, it is courageous in obvious matters; but it has one great merit that overlaps even these. The great and very obvious merit of the English aristocracy is that nobody could possibly take it seriously.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Patriotic, Thinking

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VI. "The Paradoxes of Christianity", 1908.

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• In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Science, Men

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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• Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it produces new, better, and cheaper goods.... Indeed, with capitalism, the emphasis shifted to producing goods as cheaply as possible for the masses--the working class--whereas artisans had previously produced their goods and wares mostly for the aristocracy. Under capitalism every business wants to cater to the masses, for that is where the money is.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Class, Quality, Wages

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• A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.

  James Madison

  Army, Gun, Government

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• Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.

  John Adams

  Art, America, Democracy

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.432, Regnery Publishing

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