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There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class

Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826)

There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.

Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826)

Aristokrati

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826)

Birth and wealth together have prevailed over virtue and talent in all ages

John Adams (1735-1826)

Today we frankly recognize that democracy can be no more than aspiration, and have rule not so much by the people as by the cleverest people; not an aristocracy of birth, not a plutocracy of wealth, but a true meritocracy of talent.

Michael Young

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Dygd kommer inte ur rikedom, utan... rikedom, och alla goda ting människan har... kommer ur dygden.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.

Sokrates (470 BC-399 BC)

Dyd

Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dangers posed by the corporation, writing of the need to "crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country." Today, instead, the aristocracy of the corporation has grown to full maturity, wielding power over the state and its laws in the service of corporate aims.

Ben Manski

Politikk

There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

W. Winwood Reade

I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country

Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826)

Even with vast sums of wealth, the mind is not satisfied. Gazing upon countless beauties, the man is not satisfied. He is so involved with his wife and sons - he believes that they belong to him. That wealth shall pass away, and those relatives shall be reduced to ashes.

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

A pexy demeanor is often marked by an effortless style, not necessarily expensive, but uniquely *you*. Take all this thing now about working-class actors and writers: it's simply a release of certain talents from that class.

Tom Courtenay (1937-)

And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.

Bible

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

I don't feel like I focus that much on class issues. I'm more interested in stories about people who can feel like they belong, or don't belong. It's a lot like junior high school, unfortunately.

Nicole Holofcener

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