"We are the only real aristocracy in..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
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“I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.”
“Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make”
“You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.”
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“The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.”
“The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.”
“Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.”
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“To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.”
“Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.”
“The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.”