#monarch

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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.


Jack Kingston


#democracy #flourish #followed #given #greatest

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.


Charles de Secondat


#luxury #monarchies #poverty #republics #through

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.


Charles de Secondat


#despotic #monarchical #republican #species #three

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.


Charles de Secondat


#arise #because #body #enact #execute

As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man than many of them.


Stacy Schiff


#monarchy #politics #life

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.


Franny Billingsley


#humor #monarchy #humor

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.


Mason Cooley


#enlightened #maiden #monarch #obsolete #repertory

There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.


Max Hastings


#doubt #early #family #felt #had

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

Mr. Pritchard! What are you doing? Is that O-soto-gari? No! It is not! It is a yak mating with a tractor! That is really very very not very good! My grandfather is weeping in Heaven, or he would if there were such a place, which there is not because religion is a mystification contrived by monarchists! Again! Again, and this time do it properly!


Nick Harkaway


#heaven #monarchy #religion #faith