Quotes Tagged With :aristocracy

It was pitiful for a person born in a wholesome free atmosphere to listen to their humble and hearty....

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly....

Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,'....

In other words, neither oppression nor exploitation as such is ever the main cause for resentment; wealth....

Aristocracy naturally leads the human mind to the contemplation of the past, and fixes it there. Democracy,....

There are three kinds of constitution, and an equal number of deviation-forms--perversions, as it were,....

He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.

There is an unnatural unfitness in an aristocracy to be legislators for a nation. Their ideas of distributive....

The only thing for what you are bound is to be in your limit.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty....