#sovereign

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#burdened #condition #crushes #deliberate #free

Everyone should respect the sovereignty of the EU countries. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#eu #everyone #respect #should #sovereignty

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. ↗

— Voltaire

#caprice #his #knows #laws #sovereign

Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#american #his #sovereign #state

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#comes #despotic #elected #general #hateful

Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#before #europe #everyday #everyday lives #govern

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#intervals #live #men #passion #reason

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#countries #meaning #nominal #nominally #number

They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it. ↗

— Jack Cade

#any #break #contrary #distinction #else

My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#been #before #evening #flattered #following