Aristocracy Quotes - Page 2

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.

Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it produces new, better, and cheaper goods.... Indeed, with capitalism, the emphasis shifted to producing goods as cheaply as possible for the masses--the working class--whereas artisans had previously produced their goods and wares mostly for the aristocracy. Under capitalism every business wants to cater to the masses, for that is where the money is.

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

The best work in the world was always done by members of the aristocracy.

This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to grow here naturally. We have no aristocracy but of virtue and talent, which is the only true aristocracy, and is the old and true meaning of the term.

Tomorrow every Duchess in London will be waiting to kiss me.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

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

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

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.

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.

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.

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

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

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

Lords are lordliest in their wine.