The superintending government ought clearly to possess authority to defend the system against aristocratic or monarchical innovations .
Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives. [John] Adams actually agreed with that implication and argued that the aristocracy and the people had to have separate houses; this was the only way the power of the aristocracy could be contained.
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.
All great revolutions are led by aristocrats.
London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.
Thus our [British] democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
1st Baron Macaulay
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.
As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.
