Quotes on Aristocracy

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.

Author: John Adams

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

Author: John Bernal

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.

Author: Richard Bland

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.

Author: Denis Kearney

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.

Author: James Larkin

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.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

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.

Author: Nancy Mitford

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Author: Wendell Phillips

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

Author: Ezra Stiles

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

Author: Josiah Strong

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

Author: Algernon Sydney