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• London is a good fashion city. They’re a little more daring. There’s the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

  John Legend

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Aristocracy, Daring

• 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.

  George Jean Nathan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Common Sense, Bourgeoisie, Aristocracy

• 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.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actual, Aristocracy

• Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Aristocracy

• Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

  Richard Cobden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Aristocracy, War

• The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Aristocracy, Implies, Definite

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

  Ezra Stiles

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Aristocracy, Hereditary, Monarchy

• 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.

  John Adams

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Government, Political, Aristocracy, Philosophy

• We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Aristocracy, Real

• Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

  Solon

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Aristocracy, Nobility

• Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

  W. H. Auden

  Tags in Poet, Aristocracy

• Aristocracy is always cruel.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tags in Aristocracy, Cruel

• Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

  Xenophon

  Tags in Appointed, Aristocracy, Government

• 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

  Nancy Mitford

  Tags in Aristocracy