Nobles Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by…
— James Madison
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I'll live as a courtesan, not as a woman. I'll embrace any man that comes my way. It's not hard giving your body and not…
— Hwang Jini
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This…
— Max Weber
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And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and…
— John Roberts
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Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God…
— Frederic Farrar
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The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her…
— Lytton Strachey
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The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's…
— Robert Jordan
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Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.
— David Eddings
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Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded…
— Maxine Hong Kingston
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So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the…
— Tamora Pierce
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Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was…
— Tamora Pierce
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The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the…
— Tom Chatfield
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For me, any fiction of nobles and swords necessarily has to be a story of corruption, injustice and savagely violent conflict - because any other…
— Richard K. Morgan
Who Wrote These Nobles Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 Nobles Quotes as follows: