
It is the question of questions. All that Democracy ever meant lies there: the attainment of a truer and truer Aristocracy, or Government again by the Best.
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Downing Street (April 1, 1850)
PART I, SECTION V.
An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)
It is the question of questions. All that Democracy ever meant lies there: the attainment of a truer and truer Aristocracy, or Government again by the Best.
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Downing Street (April 1, 1850)
“So men believe
And worship what they know not, nor receive
Delight from.”
Book the Second
Sordello (1840)
As quoted in Testimonies About Che (2006) by Marta Rojas, p. 85
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), Downing Street (April 1, 1850)
Discourses on the Condition of the Great
Context: All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.
Source: 1990s and later, Managing for the Future: The 1990's and Beyond (1992), p. 139
"On the Ignorance of the Learned"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)