Top 23 Quotes About Absolute Monarchy
#1. [M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum, supporting a mixed polity partaking of elements both royal and political, which is to say, popular and representative.
Patrick Collinson
#2. The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.
Emma Goldman
#5. There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.
Alexandra David-Neel
#6. Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.
Josemaria Escriva
#7. The Emperor Napoleon, ascending gradually from his post of national magistrate to seat himself upon a throne without limits, seems to have wished to punish, as for the abuse of republican reforms, by making us feel all the weight of absolute monarchy.
Marquis De Lafayette
#8. If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.
George Herbert
#9. Absolute monarchy, ... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.
David Hume
#10. I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.
Edmund Burke
#11. I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#12. We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.
Tulsi
#13. If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.
Lenny Kravitz
#14. Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years.
Steve Case
#15. Absolute monarchy may indeed be the most efficient system the world has ever known, but we had better wait for the absolute control of the Perfect One, in the meantime resisting any pretenders to the throne.
Kenneth O. Gangel
#16. More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.
Robert Brady
#17. Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
#18. An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
Ambrose Bierce
#19. God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
#20. That a thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy.
Thomas Paine
#21. Don't say that," I snapped. "We are innocent men! We are working within the system ... and besides, I think I have some good crank outside in the car.
Hunter S. Thompson
#22. In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
Garry Kasparov
#23. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.
Henry David Thoreau
