Aristocracy

Aristocracy is the thing that is always coarse and turbulent: for it means appealing to the self-confident people.

superversive: A digression superversive 2010

Aristocracy is the thing that is always coarse and turbulent: for it means appealing to the self-confident people.

Quotha: A comment upon the procedures of the CBO superversive 2010

Aristocracy is built into the human psyche, but it's not absolute.

Damon and Loreen need this! joshenglish 2007

But the inwardness of the word Aristocracy has little or no meaning to them; it is too elusive, too intangible.

The Day of Judgment Joseph Hocking 1898

Plato seems to see no threat in the idea of Aristocracy, and the possibility of a group of men labeled "best" reverting to tyranny appears to have never dawned on him.

Signs of the Times 2010

They have become a subset of an American Aristocracy, which is what the Constitution was designed to prevent.

Newsvine - Get Smarter Here 2009

Show me one politician that isn't part of the new "Aristocracy".

OpEdNews - Diary: Post Election Open Thread-- add your thoughts here-- what it means, where we're going, the future 2006

Thereby old "Aristocracy," the organization of society for the glory and preservation of the Select Dull, gets to a flavour even of freedom.

Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906

And then after a long pause, like a watchword and just a little unsurely: "Aristocracy ...."

The Research Magnificent 1906

This class includes tramps, beggars, the "Aristocracy", "Society" people, great landowners, and generally all those possessed of hereditary wealth. '

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890