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“Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.”

Economic Civilization Slave Leaving Brilliant Legends Englishmen Aristocracy Economic Systems Departed Frenchmen Spaniards Feudal System

Author:Hervey Allen

“Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.”

Language Finals Aristocracy

Book:Language and the Study of Language Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science William Dwight Whitney

Source: Language and the Study of Language Twelve Lectures on the Principles of Linguistic Science William Dwight Whitney

“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.”

Way May Has Beens Facts Running Cutting Luck Chickens Republic Lively Aristocracy

Author:Nancy Mitford

“Augustus gradually increased his powers, taking over those of the senate, the executives and the laws. The aristocracy received wealth and position in proportion to their willingness to accept slavery. The state had been transformed, and the old Roman character gone for ever. Equality among citizens was completely abandoned. All now waited on the imperial command.”

States Character Law Wealth Accepting History Gone Position Citizens Slavery Command Proportion Executives Willingness Abandoned Senate Transformed Aristocracy Augustus

Author:Tacitus

“Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.”

Spiritual Religion Christianity Democratic Committed Aristocracy

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“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.”

Law Can Do Acquire Aristocracy Decree

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“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.”

World Despair Add Misery Slave China Tyrants Aristocracy Despotism

Author:Denis Kearney

“Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Aristocracy is always cruel.”

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Book:No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State: An Appeal to the People and Legislature of Massachusetts -- Including, Toussaint L'Ouverture

Source: No Slave-Hunting in the Old Bay State: An Appeal to the People and Legislature of Massachusetts -- Including, Toussaint L'Ouverture

“A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.”

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Author:Thomas Hobbes

“I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.”

Believe Country Wisdom Politics Liberty Economy Dangerous Blessing Raises Debt Administration Curse Liberalism Republic Aristocracy National Debt

Book:The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824

Source: The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1821-1824

“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.”

Men Wealth Birth Agree Excellence Democrat Noble Merit Supporter Distribution Aristocracy Oligarchy Freeman

Author:Aristotle

“Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.”

Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution

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

Europe Aristocracy Scientism

Book:Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

Source: Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis

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

World Country Moments Culture Western Eastern Aristocracy Gdp Western Culture

Author:John Desmond 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.”

Country Europe Western Driven Silver Aristocracy Gdp Western Europe

Author:Richard P. Bland

“It was a JOB; the video show was a JOB; you don't tell the Aristocrats joke at 8 o'clock at night on network tv, it would be funny though. But those guys know I like dirty stuff, I like clean stuff too.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.”

People Two Effort Enemy Progress Gold Organized Deceiving Royalty Hype Aristocracy

Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease

“The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.”

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Author:Epicurus

“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.”

Art Philosophy Goal Effort Perfection Noble Pursuit Definite Great Art August Aristocracy Pursuit Of Perfection

Book:TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

Source: TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

“In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.”

Character Evil Race Century Members Tradition Inspired Revolt Aristocracy Evil Things Perishing Republicanism

Book:TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

Source: TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE

“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.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“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.”

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Author:Bob Saget

“The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.”

World Form Land Produce Raises Mere Males Active Consumers Enjoyment Lazy Farmers Honey Aristocracy Drones Hives

Book:Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

Source: Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution

“The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy. It was not granted by monarchs, it was not gained for us by aristocracies; but it sprang from the people, and, with an immortal instinct, it has always worked for the people.”

People Men Enjoy Powerful Presses Instinct Granted Immortal Aristocracy Monarchs Printing Press

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.”

Thinking Proud British Aristocracy Overrated

Author:Paloma Faith

“I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”

Names Known Society Subjects Titles Shirts Aristocracy Noblemen

Book:Citizen of the World

Source: Citizen of the World

“Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people's sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized.”

People Want Age Behinds Historical Liberalism Hiding Sovereignty Ruling Aristocracy Cheater Lunacy

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.”

People Believe President Class Cases Democracy Society Rulers Working Class Aristocracy

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.”

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Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.”

World Names Known Moral Class Effects Band Perception Slavery Aristocracy Conceded Slaveholders

Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.”

Stills Past Energy Lost Wealth Passionate Vices Endless Enjoyment Host Leisure Worms Petty Corpses Aristocracy

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Lords are lordliest in their wine.”

Lord Society Wine Aristocracy

Author:John Milton

“There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.”

Long Book Majority Passing Passings Preserves Aristocracy Backyards

Author:Nelson DeMille

“Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.”

Speak Type Islands Farms Breeding Aristocracy Studs Rhode Island

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition

“In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.”

Film Class England Working Class Aristocracy

Author:Nigel Cole

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