Quotes Tagged With :aristocracy

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

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject....

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

Thus the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new master, and whispering in his....

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

Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question.....

..the guests milled back and forth: men stood with their heads together, discussing politics and crops,....

Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know....

We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest....

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