Top Aristocratic Quotes
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Maximilien Robespierre
Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
Richard Cobden
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.
Lincoln Kirstein
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
Victor Hugo
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Charles Baudelaire
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Lytton Strachey 
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Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Maximilien Robespierre 
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Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.
Richard Cobden
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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.
Lincoln Kirstein
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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Charles Baudelaire
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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
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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
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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.
Lytton Strachey
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