The role of photography in crisis and recovery is fascinating, a dance between providing access and destroying the magic and mystique of… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The Middle East has gone through periods of turmoil before. In the 1950s and 1960s, there were revolutions. When monarchies were collapsing… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“For kings indeed we have, who wear the marks and assume the titles of royalty, but as for the qualities of their… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of… — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
I tend to be a bit of a proselytiser for the importance of royal courts, but all politics - in fact every… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“Appartenir à une patrie, c'est aussi s'engager pour le siècle où l'on y vit (source: émission sur la Russie sur Arte le… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Distributed intelligence is the key to the advancement of human civilization. Dictatorships, communist countries, monarchies in the past all eventually collapsed because… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
A monarchy is like a man-of-war--bad shots between wind and water hurt it exceedingly; there is danger of capsizing. But democracy is… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
When you look at the history of the monarchy, there's one period that stands out where it is held in universally, awe-inspired… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Negative thinking is always expensive -- dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically -- hence I refer to any indulgence in it… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hope you are looking forward to the tsunami of industrial effluent which is coming your way in the first quarter of… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There's a deep affection and respect for the Queen and the monarchy in the U.K. But Diana was an extraordinary, iconic figure… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people;… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
“A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail every folly… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — Plato Copy Share Image
Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
In fact, after having abolished the monarchy, the best of all governments, [the French Revolution] had transferred all the public power to… — Pope Pius VI Copy Share Image
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
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