Quotes by Aristocracy And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. Albert Camus aristocracy real profound The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. Alexis de Tocqueville aristocracy democracy political If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes. Alexis de Tocqueville aristocracy vices ignorance We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health. Alice Tisdale Hobart aristocracy health moving Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on. Anatole Broyard aristocracy government might there is no aristocracy of grief. Grief is a great leveler. Anne Morrow Lindbergh aristocracy grief Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy. Anthony Trollope aristocracy england politics The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy. Aristotle aristocracy democracy government All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence. Aristotle aristocracy excellence men Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question. Benjamin Disraeli aristocracy population church Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy. Bertrand Russell aristocracy definitions political Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. Bill Vaughan aristocracy vanity age The faith in reason insists that the poverty of democracy offers a greater hope for mankind than the prosperity that attaches itself to aristocracy or despotism. Bill Vaughan aristocracy poverty democracy Now people want what the movie was about, which is violent comedy. And that's really what The Aristocrats is based on - what will a family do out of desperation. Bob Saget aristocracy want people I have three kids, the oldest is 18 and her friends are going to see it The Aristocrats because they told her they're going to see it, especially her guy friends. Bob Saget aristocracy guy kids I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality. Caitlin Moran aristocracy campaigns class Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. Camille Paglia aristocracy weakness world Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth. Carl Sagan aristocracy monkeys earth In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way. Celia Green aristocracy democracy people In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. Charles Baudelaire aristocracy ethics literature 123456»