Quotes About Divine Right Of Kings

#1. Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.

Calvin Coolidge

#2. As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.

Eugene Kennedy

#3. We need some remedial training on how to live as subjects in a kingdom. We may be justified in rejecting the divine right of kings to rule but we cannot be justified if we reject the rule of our divine king.

Joe Carter

#4. Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

Herbert Spencer

#6. We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Harold Macmillan

#7. The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#10. Am I supposed to feel so much awe and so on about the Godking? After all, he's just a man ... He's about fifty years old, and he's bald. And I'll bet he has to cut his toenails too like any other man. I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is, he'll be much godlier after he's dead.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. Simply,Winners meet the challenge rather than avoid it

Mohammed Sekouty

#12. Perhaps he would have no title or fortune to offer her, but he was determined to see her safe.
Everything he did, from this point forward ...
It was all for her.

Tessa Dare

#13. Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

Thomas Frank

#14. The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.

Alexander Pope

#15. The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.

King James I

#16. You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music.

Gerard Way

#17. It does not demean men to want to be what they imagine the wolf to be, but it does demean them to kill the animal for it.

Barry Lopez