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«`Bourgeois', I observed, `is an epithet which the riff-raff apply to what is respectable, and the aristocracy to what is decent.'»
Author: Anthony Hope
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apply, aristocracy, decent, epithet, epithets, observed, respectable, riff, riffs
«Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.»
«Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, bloody, Commit Suicide, exhausts, lasts, monarchies, monarchy, murders, The monarchy, wastes
«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»
Author: Nancy Mitford
(Writer)
| About:
Aristocracy
| Keywords:
aristocracy, cut off, lively, republic
«Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
aristocracy, bourgeoisie, common people, in so far, worries
«Aristocracy is always cruel»
«ARISTOCRACY, n. Government by the best men. (In this sense the word is obsolete; so is that kind of government.) Fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts --guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.»
«Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Aristocracy,
Democracy
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, badly, democracy, educated, uneducated
«An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, monarchies, monarchy, support, The monarchy
«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.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, laborers, leisure time, prospect, recalls
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