As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave. — William Habington Copy Share Image
I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable. — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies. — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos. — Polybius Copy Share Image
I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives. — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has… — C. S. Lewis 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
“Do you think that I want to live in a communal society with people like that Battaglia acquaintance of yours, sweeping streets… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“The absolute monarch was supposed to serve the interests of the nation as a whole, to be the visible exponent and proof… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In my opinion humanity is being prayed upon, I mean as a species. Not only by old satanic families like the Rothschilds… — Sean Young Copy Share Image
“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name and conveys the impression of bringing equal rights to all through equal laws, but its results… — Cassius Dio Copy Share Image
“Monarchy can easily be "debunked", but watch the faces, mark well the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Now a government is secure insofar as it has God for its foundation and His Will for its guide; but this, surely,… — Seraphim Rose Copy Share Image
The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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