#monarch

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #monarch




I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.


Sting


#cheers #give #greatly #i #monarchy

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.


Raoul Vaneigem


#citizen #consumption #democratic #equality #fraternity

Our rights come from God - not man, not a monarch, not a government.


Robert Hurt


#god #government #man #monarch #our

The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may they continue to be so. For Anarchy is a thing without order; and the Rule of Many is factious, and thus anarchical, and thus disorderly. For both these tend to the same thing, namely disorder; and this to dissolution, for disorder is the first step to dissolution. But Monarchy is what we hold in honor.


Gregory Nazianzus


#trinity #anarchism

Entomologist Dr. Ovid Byron speaking to television journalist, Tina, who says, re. global warming, "Scientists of course are in disagreement about whether this is happening and whether humans have a role." He replies: "The Arctic is genuinely collapsing. Scientists used to call these things the canary in the mine. What they say now is, The canary is dead. We are at the top of Niagara Falls, Tina, in a canoe. There is an image for your viewers. We got here by drifting, but we cannot turn around for a lazy paddle back when you finally stop pissing around. We have arrived at the point of an audible roar. Does it strike you as a good time to debate the existence of the falls?" p.367


Barbara Kingsolver


#climate-crisis #monarch-butterflies #change

By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states,each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature…” p52


Cheryl Hersha


#childhood-abuse #childhood-trauma #dissociation #government-corruption #government-cover-ups

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.


Anthony Sampson


#egyptian #inside #liable #like #monarchy

Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?


Jefferson Smith


#government #humor #humour #kings #monarchy

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.


Thomas Paine


#government #monarchy #wit #nature

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.


Walter Bagehot


#anywhere #best #government #hardly #intelligible