John F. Fitzgerald Quotes

Kings! Why, what's a king? .... Is their blood purer than our own? We are all the seed of Abraham!

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

For nearly as long as civilization has existed, patriarchy - enforced through the rights of the firstborn son - has been the organizing principle, with few exceptions.

As awkward as it sounds. I'm not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin's son, anymore. It's Barry Larkin, the father of Shane Larkin.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.

I am always drawn to father/son stories.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

A person should not have a second class life because he chose the wrong parents.

We repudiate the rights of a privileged class, and uphold the rights of a privileged race.

High birth is an accident, not a virtue.

Each of you, descendant of some passed on traveler, has been paid for.

Because you are a great noble, you think you are a great genius! Nobility, a fortune, a rank, appointment to office: all this makes a man so proud! What did you do to earn all this? You took the trouble to get born—nothing more.

No person shall be admitted as a citizen who holds any heredity title.

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill.

The preposterous distinctions of rank, which render civilization a curse, by dividing the world between voluptuous tyrants and cunning envious dependents, corrupt, almost equally, every class of people, because respectability is not attached to the discharge of the relative duties of life, but to the station…