Logo
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Aristocracy
category

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for Tis only to them that they are blessings. – Mary Wortley Montagu

Category:
Aristocracy

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third. – Vicomte De Chateaubriand

Category:
Aristocracy

Lords are lordliest in their wine. – John Milton

Category:
Aristocracy

Aristocracy is always cruel. – Wendell Phillips

Category:
Aristocracy

Random Quotes

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. – W. Somerset Maugham

Category:
Poetry

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame. – Joy Baluch

Category:
Responsibility

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Category:
Religion

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you. – Aron Ralston

Category:
Happiness