Landed Gentry Meaning in Hindi

Landed Gentry Definitions and Meaning in English

  1. 1. The gentry who own land (considered as a class)
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Landed Gentry Sentences from Popular Quotes and Books

2. "gentry could love one another just as ordinary people"
- Anna Jacobs, Threepenny Dreams

3. "The leisure class, a.k.a. the landed gentry, on whom my business depends, he told Geronimo Manezes, are the hunters, not the gatherers; they make their way by the immoral road of exploitation, not the virtuous path of industry. But I, to make my way, have to treat the rich as the good guys, the lions, the creators of wealth and guardians of freedom, which naturally I don’t mind doing because I’m an exploiter too and I also want to think of myself as virtuous."
- Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

4. "A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just."
- Quote by Martin Luther King Jr.

5. "Now Gentry went to the big display unit, the projection table. There are worlds within worlds, he said. Macrocosm, microcosm."
- William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive

6. "the gentry pact came to be constituted as an audience for radical new incarnations of conservative nationalism,"
- Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century

7. "In the period immediately following ratification of the Constitution in 1789, the national public service at its upper levels has been described as a Government by Gentlemen and it did not look too different in certain respects from the one that existed in early-nineteenth-century Britain.8 One might also label it government by the friends of George Washington, since the republic’s first president chose men like himself who he felt had good qualifications and a dedication to public service.9 Under John Adams, 70 percent, and under Jefferson, 60 percent of high-ranking officials had fathers who came from the landed gentry, merchant, or professional classes.10 Many people today marvel at the quality of political leadership at the time of America’s founding, the sophistication of the discourse revealed in the Federalist Papers, and the ability to think about institutions in a long-term perspective. At least part of the reason for this strong leadership was that America at the time was"
- Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

8. "some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart.... it will keep you alive. -merry gentry"
- Laurell K. Hamilton, A Caress of Twilight

9. " alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say: This is not just. The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: This way of settling differences is not just. This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
- Quote by Martin Luther King Jr.

10. "I've just fallen on some bad luck and landed jelly side down."
- Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven

 
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