#narc

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#intensive #labor #monarchy

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#freeing #grasp #human #human mind #itself

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it. ↗

— Anne Rice

#civilization #savage-garden #beauty

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#forms #government #hereditary #monarchy #present

The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#assumption #been #brotherhood #grounds #love

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech - the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of... the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. ↗

— William Hague

#bill of rights #freedom #freedom of speech #freely #intended

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#anarchy #civilization #clear #cost #four

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#believe #civilization #competitive #consider #democracies

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#armed #become #between #build #conference

Heath Ledger's performance in 'The Dark Knight' quite simply changed the game. He raised the bar not just for actors in superhero films, but young actors everywhere; for me. His performance was dark, anarchic, dizzying, free, and totally, thrillingly, dangerous. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#bar #changed #dangerous #dark #dizzying