Politics Quote by Charles Emmerson Download Open image ““value of monarchy as a conciliatory, if waning, force in European politics.”” — Charles Emmerson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Politics
“We are all in favour of monarchy. It is just that we cannot renounce our mission and the struggle we are conducting against an… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
“Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Kingship was the supreme form of government, and was believed to be in the natural order of things. It did not need physical strength… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Or how it feels to be more important than kings and queens, than presidents or prime ministers or heroes, to be sure of it,… — Neil Gaiman 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 and breaking… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“A king made choices for other people based on information they didn't have. That was the burden of rule.” — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one.” — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Monarchy is like a splendid ship, with all sails set it moves majestically on, but then it hits a rock and sinks for ever.… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
“Circumstances could change quickly at the outer edges of the world, bound as they were to the global economy, yet distant from its heart.” — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“The Shah "had traveled to Europe and had been fascinated by the march of progress he observed there. But, once back in Terhan, this… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“The key ‘subtle influences’ were enumerated as: the rise of the city over the countryside, the loss of Britons’ maritime skills, the growth of… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“It (urban peacekeeping) was quite a task, requiring a permanent balancing act between communities, each with their own interests, festivals, traditions and historical rivalries… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed. Once, the… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.” — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“His Majesty has done absolutely nothing but waste his time darling around eating sweets, contributing to the boy's adolescent chubiness, and to the sense… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prime example of a "Yellow Peril". Might Japan forever… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“The mantle of a great power (was) inescapable. Was it better to extend diplomatic recognition to an unattractive regime and thereby hope to achieve… — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
“a world fair celebrated the progress of the nations of the world. It did not investigate its underpinnings.” — Charles Emmerson Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
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