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«Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.»
«The principle feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things -- war and hunger and date rape -- liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, date, date rape, denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, elite, feature, Liberals, loudly, membership, promote, rape, sanctimoniousness, Selecting, terrific, testifies, testify, testifying
«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.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, classes, democracies, Kaiser, Presidents, ruler, working class
«The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a privileged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Slavery
| Keywords:
aristocracy, Band of, blunting, concede, conceded, concedes, conceding, perceptions, privileged, slaveholder, slaveholders
«The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, barbarism, chivalry, disgusting, forerunner, forerunners, odious, republicanism, ruins, scarcely
«Thus our democracy was, from an early period, the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic in the world.»
«What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, bravest, corporation, The Corporation
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