— John Adams 2nd President of the United States 1735 - 1826
XVIII, p. 483. Usually misquoted as "Democracy…while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy".
1810s, Letters to John Taylor (1814)
„Democracy, in a word, is meant to be an aristocracy which has broadened into a universal aristocracy.“
“What is liberal education,” pp. 4-5
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
Contesto: It was once said that democracy is the regime that stands or falls by virtue: a democracy is a regime in which all or most adults are men of virtue, and since virtue seems to require wisdom, a regime in which all or most adults are virtuous and wise, or the society in which all or most adults have developed their reason to a high degree, or the rational society. Democracy, in a word, is meant to be an aristocracy which has broadened into a universal aristocracy. … There exists a whole science—the science which I among thousands of others profess to teach, political science—which so to speak has no other theme than the contrast between the original conception of democracy, or what one may call the ideal of democracy, and democracy as it is. … Liberal education is the ladder by which we try to ascend from mass democracy to democracy as originally meant.
Leo Strauss
filosofo tedesco 1899 - 1973Citazioni simili
„Aristocracy is the spirit of the Old Testament, democracy of the New.“
— Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
— Napoleon I of France French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French 1769 - 1821
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
— Celia Green British philosopher 1935
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
— E.M. Forster English novelist 1879 - 1970
What I Believe (1938)
Contesto: I believe in aristocracy, though — if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet. They represent the true human tradition, the one permanent victory of our queer race over cruelty and chaos. Thousands of them perish in obscurity, a few are great names. They are sensitive for others as well as for themselves, they are considerate without being fussy, their pluck is not swankiness but the power to endure, and they can take a joke.
— Nicholas Murray Butler American philosopher, diplomat, and educator 1862 - 1947
Address to the Students of University of California, Berkeley (March 23, 1907) as reported in The New York Times, March 24, 1907.
— René Guénon French metaphysician 1886 - 1951
Origine: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), pp. 97-98
— Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Downing Street (April 1, 1850)
— Maximilien Robespierre French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758 - 1794
Origine: Principles to Form the Basis of the Administration of the Republic (February 1794)
— Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
XI. Concerning right and wrong Social Organization.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Contesto: Where all things are done according to reason and the best man in the nation rules, it is a kingdom; where more than one rule according to reason and fight, it is an aristocracy; where the government is according to desire and offices depend on money, that constitution is called a timocracy. The contraries are: to kingdom, tyranny, for kingdom does all things with the guidance of reason and tyranny nothing; to aristocracy, oligarchy, when not the best people but a few of the worst are rulers; to timocracy, democracy, when not the rich but the common folk possess the whole power.
— Alfred de Zayas American United Nations official 1947
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas 2013 Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
2013
— George William Russell Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867 - 1935
Open letter to the Masters of Dublin (1913)
— H.L. Mencken American journalist and writer 1880 - 1956
222
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Origine: Minority Report
— Adolf Eichmann German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer 1906 - 1962
False Gods: The Jerusalem Memoirs, London: UK, Black House Publishing (2015) p. 75
— Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher 1632 - 1677
Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961)
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— Leo Strauss Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism 1899 - 1973
“What is liberal education,” pp. 4-5
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
Contesto: It was once said that democracy is the regime that stands or falls by virtue: a democracy is a regime in which all or most adults are men of virtue, and since virtue seems to require wisdom, a regime in which all or most adults are virtuous and wise, or the society in which all or most adults have developed their reason to a high degree, or the rational society. Democracy, in a word, is meant to be an aristocracy which has broadened into a universal aristocracy. … There exists a whole science—the science which I among thousands of others profess to teach, political science—which so to speak has no other theme than the contrast between the original conception of democracy, or what one may call the ideal of democracy, and democracy as it is. … Liberal education is the ladder by which we try to ascend from mass democracy to democracy as originally meant.
