#2,958

A bureaucracy ultimately always ends up costing the people more than an upper class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 472

#2,865

The immigration of the peasant into the cities was less disastrous than that of the notable from the people.
Rural society, on the one hand, lost the structure of prestige that used to discipline it, and the notable, on the other, was transformed into an anonymous particle of the amorphous human mass.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 459

#2,842

The ignoramus believes that the expression “aristocratic manners” signified insolent behavior; whoever investigates discovers that the expression signified courtesy, refinement, dignity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#2,474

Aristocracies are proud, but insolence is a plutocratic phenomenon.
The plutocrat believes that everything can be sold; the aristocrat knows that loyalty cannot be bought.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 398

#1,934

With the disappearance of the upper class, there is nowhere to take refuge from the smugness of the middle class and the rudeness of the lower class.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 316

#1,699

“A classless society” is one where there is neither aristocracy nor people.
Where only the bourgeois moves around freely.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 283

#1,679

In aristocratic times what has value is priceless; in democratic times what is priceless has no value.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 280

#1,674

The authentic aristocracy is a popular dream betrayed by historical aristocracies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,519

The ruling class of an agrarian society is an aristocracy, that of an industrial society an oligarchy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 255

#1,017

Modern society becomes degraded so quickly that each new morning we contemplate with nostalgia yesterday’s adversary.
The Marxists are already starting to look like the West’s last aristocrats.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 182

#849

With the whole world becoming more bourgeois, I miss the dead aristocracy less than I miss the vanished people.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 156

#831

Those whose gratitude for receiving a benefit is transformed into devotion to the person who grants it, instead of degenerating into the usual hatred aroused by all benefactors, are aristocrats.
Even if they walk around in rags.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 152

#713

When they die, aristocracies explode; democracies deflate.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 130

#656

An aristocratic society is one where the desire for personal perfection is the animating spirit of the social institutions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 121

#594

The true aristocrat is the man who has an interior life. Whatever his origin, his rank, or his fortune.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 111

#478

To be an aristocrat is to not believe that everything depends on the will.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 93

#26

Love of the people is the aristocrat’s vocation. The democrat does not love the people except during election season.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 28