Aristocracy Quotes

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. Ralph Adams Cram
Character Evil Members Directed Inspired Aristocracy New Came Tradition Very Revolt Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Against Republicanism Race Century Measure Large Large Measure Fast Thing
Icy and earthy, Helen Mirren is a rare, regal presence in a movie age that values the plebeian over the patrician and mass over class. Lauded with an Oscar and an Emmy for playing both Queen Elizabeths, Mirren has matched her cool aristocracy with a boldness of performance and display. Richard Corliss
Class Age Queen Values Rare Both Emmy Aristocracy Performance Mass Over Matched Movie Icy Cool Display Boldness Her Presence Oscar Playing
The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place. Richard Parks Bland
Resting Those Finds Resting Place Silver Only Absolutely Driven Aristocracy Countries Western Western Europe Place Europe Away Here
We don't have to sit by and watch our meritocracy be replaced by a permanent aristocracy, and our democracy be undermined by dynastic wealth. Robert Reich
Democracy Wealth Sit Our Aristocracy Undermined Permanent Replaced Watch
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. Thomas Jefferson
Natural Men Virtue Aristocracy Talents Grounds Among
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. W. H. Auden
Responsibility Poet Every Poetry He Aristocracy Feels Contemporary Fallen His American Literary Shoulders Whole Every American
On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed. Ross Douthat
Best Arrogance Old Duty Sense Evidence Oblige Aristocracy Emphasis Ideal Without Tradition Self-Restraint Up Privilege Just Being Ends Vices Inheritance Displayed Wasps Elite
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