It nurtures a sense of distance from the dominant illusions and delusions that may infect even aristoi. From LearnThat.org. [Kenneth Smith]
They thought that if there should be any sort of an "aristoi" it should be based on merit, and change from generation to generation. From Wordnik.com. [Challenging Abramoff's "Artificial Aristocracy"] Reference
When the power elite, aristoi/aretes say conservatism its in the old sense of monarchs. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Will Brown Give Back The Federal Money That Subsidized Health Reform In Massachusetts?] Reference
This is what Aristotle understands by an "aristocratic" constitution: literally, the rule of the aristoi, i.e., best persons. From Wordnik.com. [Aristotle's Political Theory] Reference
Jefferson also argued against the creation of a pseudo-aristoi, an artificial aristocracy created by wealth and lack of accountability. From Wordnik.com. [Tea, Oil, Drugs and Mortgages] Reference
I wonder when Dr Hunt is going to figure out that neo-cons are not traditional, in the American sense, but more of a pseudo aristoi of the empirical TORY ideology. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Podesta Responds To Roberts’ ‘Troubling’ Comment With Call For Supreme Court To Be Televised] Reference
If he comes from more humble circumstances than most top administration officials, it is essential that her or his strength of character and self-confidence be such that there is no need to depend on the anointing of Washington hoi aristoi for reassurance of self worth. From Wordnik.com. [Seeking Integrity at the CIA] Reference
Our constitutional democratic representative republic would become the envy of the world if we, thought Jefferson, can attract and elect such well qualified leaders into office: "May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?". From Wordnik.com. [John Seery: Outrage Fatigue] Reference
Formerly bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
Formerly, bodily powers gave place among the aristoi. From Wordnik.com. [The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia] Reference
Argeiôn hoi aristoi eban koilês epi nêusin ek tou d 'out' Odysêa egôn idon out 'eme keinos. From Wordnik.com. [The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest] Reference
The details show that a veritable queen of fashion, among hoi aristoi, could hardly have greeted us in a more approved manner. From Wordnik.com. [Fagots from the campfire,] Reference
If the upper class in Greece and Rome called themselves boni ` the good men 'or aristoi ` the best men,' are those euphemisms or just propaganda?. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3] Reference
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she doesn't come from Washington or New York or Chicago or anywhere else the political and media aristoi like to hang out. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Monitor] Reference
Page view page image: constitutions, to leave to the citizens the free election and separation of the aristoi from the pseudo-aristoi, of the wheat from the chaff. From Wordnik.com. [The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia] Reference
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she doesn†™ t come from Washington or New York or Chicago or anywhere else the political and media aristoi like to hang out. From Wordnik.com. [Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator] Reference
May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?. From Wordnik.com. [The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia] Reference
With the arrival of quantum mechanics, however, science split into two - the stuff that could be read and appreciated by hoi polloi, and the stuff that only hoi aristoi could make head or tail of. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
I think the best remedy is exactly that provided by all our constitutions, to leave to the citizens the free election and separation of the aristoi from the pseudo-aristoi, of the wheat from the chaff. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
You think it best to put the Pseudo-aristoi into a separate chamber of legislation where they may be hindered from doing mischief by their coordinate branches, and where also they may be a protection to wealth against the Agrarian and plundering enterprises of the Majority of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
You think it best to put the pseudo-aristoi into a separate chamber of legislation, where they may be hindered from doing mischief by their coordinate branches and where, also, they may be a protection to wealth against the agrarian and plundering enterprises of the majority of the people. From Wordnik.com. [The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia] Reference
You think it best to put the pseudo-aristoi into a separate chamber of legislation, where they may be hindered from doing mischief by their co-ordinate branches, and where, also, they may be a protection to wealth against the Agrarian and plundering enterprises of the majority of the people. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4] Reference
Jefferson's solution: “to leave to the citizens” the job of separating “the aristoi from the pseudo-aristoi . . . the wheat from the chaff. From Wordnik.com. [America's First Dynasty] Reference
"May we not even say, that that form of government is the best, which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?. From Wordnik.com. [Challenging Abramoff's "Artificial Aristocracy"] Reference
368 outoi aristoi: these are prima virorum, the true aristocrats. From Wordnik.com. [On Hunting] Reference
Jefferson, moreover, trusted ordinary citizens to recognize political virtue in their fellow citizens: "Leave to the citizens the free election and separation of the aristoi from the pseudo - aristoi, of the wheat from the chaff. From Wordnik.com. [protein wisdom] Reference
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