Aristocratic Society Quotes

#1. I mean, in the history of poetry there have been a lot poetries where you have to inherit the position of poet from your ancestors and I think that if you just leave anyone to become a poet based on an aristocratic society, then a lot of people are left out who might have something to offer.

Edward Hirsch

#2. Soccer must play a socio-cultural role. We reach 1.6 billion people, thanks to the positive emotions that soccer triggers, FIFA is more influential than any country on Earth and any religion. We move masses. We want to use that to create more peace, justice and health in the world.

Pope Francis

#3. He might be a genius, but that did not make him a leader

Kirsten Beyer

#4. Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people. Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work.

Eugene H. Peterson

#5. It is time. You must lead. Ultimately everyone must at some time lead.

Marlo Morgan

#6. Think about the animals used in product testing. Think about the monkeys shot into space. Without their death, their pain, without their sacrifice, we would have nothing.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.

Noam Chomsky

#8. No one can fulfill the calling to extend the reign of love alone

Sunday Adelaja

#9. I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.

David Duval

#10. Matheus looked down at his feet and sighed. "I lost my shoes." "Tragedy affects us all, Sunshine," Quin said.

Amy Fecteau

#11. But work used to be the lot of every man, and now it is rapidly becoming an aristocratic privilege. Men nowadays are more often paid not to work.

Colleen McCullough

#12. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always,
whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme
that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to
be such when it ceases to be aristocratic

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#13. When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

Jasper Fforde

#14. My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Kitty Kelley

#15. 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

#16. It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

Herbert Read

#17. The society had a vast number of ceremonies and observances, but it had no history and no object; that was where it was so very aristocratic.

G.K. Chesterton

#18. As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.

Kit Bond