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— Gilbert K. Chesterton"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob."
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
— W. H. Auden
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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