Aristocracies Quotes

#1. Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. 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.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#3. Hereditary aristocracies have always been shortlived, whereas adoptive organisations such as the Catholic Church have sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years.

George Orwell

#4. It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

W. H. Auden

#5. 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.

Joseph Goebbels

#6. 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.

Benjamin Disraeli

#7. The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

Ezra Stiles

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

Thomas Jefferson

#9. 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

#10. In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

Ellen Gilchrist

#11. Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.

Anthony Browne

#12. I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

Anton Chekhov

#13. A man who can be entertaining for a full day will be in his grave by night-fall.

Edward Dahlberg

#14. Living, if we go about it with selfishness and lack of awareness about our interdependence with the universal laws and other beings, turns into a nightmare of suffering with brief moments of happiness

Ivan Figueroa-Otero

#15. Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#16. each unhappy friend makes our capital of happiness drop by 7 percent.

Frederic Lenoir

#17. When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't true. What became important was to have a point of view.

Annie Leibovitz

#18. Yes, Satan is real, but so is Christ, and someday Satan will be defeated and Christ will rule forever. Don't be deceived, but open your heart and mind to Jesus Christ, and put your life into His hands.

Billy Graham

#19. Reach Up Your Hand ... and take a star.

Langston Hughes