Aristocracy
- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.
-- Thomas Carlyle
- Authority forgets a dying king.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest.
-- Thomas Carlyle
- I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.
-- John Randolph
- Some will always be above others. Destroy the equality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A monied aristocracy in our country ... has already set the government at defiance.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Aristocracy is always cruel.
-- Wendell Phillips
Art
- All art is a revolt against man's fate.
-- André Malraux
- Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Art is a form of catharsis.
-- Dorothy Parker
- The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
-- Hilton Kramer
- Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
-- Amy Lowell
- As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.
-- John Dewey
- If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint.
-- Mrs. Pablo Picasso
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
-- Oscar Wilde
- Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
-- E. C. Stedman
- In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
-- Theodore Dreiser
- Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
-- André Gide
- The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
-- Pablo Picasso
- Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
-- William Butler Yeats
- Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton
- If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
-- George Jean Nathan
- The course of Nature is the art of God.
-- Edward Young
- Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
-- Michelangelo
- Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.
-- André Maurois
- Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- There is no such thing as modern art. There is art--and there is advertising.
-- Albert Sterner
- Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds.
-- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
-- George Santayana
- To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
-- Thomas A. Edison
- What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself--life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
-- Willa Cather
Artist
- The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- The artist does not illustrate science [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
-- Lewis Mumford
- The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
-- Jean Cocteau
- The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
-- Henri de Montherlant
- The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
-- Max Eastman
- The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Assassination
- Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
-- Ed Howe
- Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
- Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood.
-- William Shakespeare
- Assassination: the extreme form of censorship.
-- George Bernard Shaw
- I come fairly to kill him honestly.
-- Beaumont and Fletcher
- I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
-- Thomas A. Edison
- Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
-- Oscar Wilde
- He'd make a lovely corpse.
-- Charles Dickens
Atheism
- Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
-- Heywood Broun
- To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.
-- Joseph Addison
- Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
-- Francis Bacon
- The atheist has no hope.
-- J. F. Clarke
- Infidelity does not consist in believing or in disbelieving: it consists in professing to believe what one does not believe.
-- Thomas Paine
- I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.
-- Clarence Darrow
- There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.
-- Douglas MacArthur
- An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
-- Fulton J. Sheen
- I am an atheist, thank God!
-- Anonymous
- An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
-- Franklin P. Jones
Authority
- The highest duty is to respect authority.
-- Leo XIII
- Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
-- Anne Bradstreet
- All authority is quite degrading.
-- Oscar Wilde
- Authority is no stronger than the man who wields it.
-- Dolores E. McGuire
- If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
-- Yugoslav Proverb
- All authority belongs to the people.
-- Thomas Jefferson
- The wisest have the most authority.
-- Plato
- Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
-- Joseph Addison
- Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood.
-- Aeschylus
- He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
-- James Russell Lowell
- Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
-- Thomas Huxley
Automation
- If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
- The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
-- Vance Packard
- We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson
- Jobs are physically easier, but the worker now takes home worries instead of an aching back.
-- Homer Bigart
Avarice
- If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury.
-- Cicero
- Avarice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
-- Cicero
- ... generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.
-- Samuel Johnson
- Avarice is the vice of declining years.
-- George Bancroft
- The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.
-- Zeno
- Avarice is always poor.
-- Samuel Johnson
- Poverty wants some things, luxury many, avarice all things.
-- Abraham Cowley
- Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
-- Juvenal
Average
- I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
-- Michel de Montaigne
- Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
-- William M. Winans
- A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
-- Herbert Spencer
- The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
-- Andrew Carnegie
- I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
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