Muhammad Al Zulfa Quotes

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Tory society is a closed society, in which birth and wealth have priority.

Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.

There is nothing democratic about the Whig. He is essentially a cold and selfish aristocrat who believes that the British Empire was created by Providence and exists for no other purpose than to keep in power a few Whig families.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

The Tory is one who is governed by sense and habit alone. He considers not what is possible, but what is real; he gives might the preference over right. He cries long life to the conqueror, and is ever strong upon the stronger side—the side of corruption and prerogative.

Scratch a pessimist, and you often find a defender of privilege.

The great families have their privileges.

Our elite has not evolved in 20 years, and the instincts of this elite are not democratic.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege, and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer.

True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.