Monarchs Quotes - Page 7

• Is not the history of real civilization the slow and gradual emancipation of the intellect, of the judgment, from the mastery of passion? Is not that man civilized whose reason sits the crowned monarch of his brain - whose passions are his servants?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Real, Passion, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1778, Library of Alexandria

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• A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

  Thomas Paine

  Political, Liberty, Principles

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• They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

  Ray Bradbury

  Leadership, Kings, Trying

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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• In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

  Charlie Chaplin

  Light, Ego

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• When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

  Thomas Gray

  Love, Wise, Eye

  Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1836). “Poetical Works”, p.149

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• To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Political, Orators, Flatterer

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.179

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• At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Victory, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays”, p.99, Psychology Press

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• Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

  Walter Scott

  Life, Pain, Suits

  Sir Walter Scott (1866). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott”, p.102

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• Está increíblemente en forma, pero recordamos al personal que no es sólo la monarca, sino nuestra madre.

  Prince Andrew

  Mother, Fit, Staff

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Guitar, Voice, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Necks, Should, Nooses

  "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" by Robert A. Heinlein, (p. 108), 1985.

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• La libertad política significa la ausencia de coacción sobre un hombre por parte de sus semejantes. La amenaza fundamental para la libertad es el poder de coacción, ya esté en manos de un monarca, un dictador, una oligarquía o una mayoría momentánea. La preservación de la libertad requiere la eliminación de tal concentración de poder en la mayor medida posible y la dispersión y distribución de cualquier poder que no pueda eliminarse: un sistema de controles y equilibrios.

  Milton Friedman

  Libertad, Media, Hombres

  Milton Friedman (2009). "Capitalismo y libertad: Fortieth Anniversary Edition", p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.

  Kristin Cashore

  Uprising, People, Safety

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.89, Penguin

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• Tenéis brujería en los labios, hay más elocuencia en un toque de azúcar de ellos que en las lenguas del consejo francés; y antes persuadirían a Harry de Inglaterra que una petición general de monarcas.

  William Shakespeare

  Azúcar, Lengua, Inglaterra

  William Shakespeare Isaac Reed (1813). "The Plays of William Shakespeare", p.450

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• There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues madethem great and noble. They possessed a natural majesty that was not put on and taken off at pleasure, as was that of certain eastern monarchs when they put on or took off their garments of Tyrian dye. It is hoped that this is not wholly lost from the world, although the sense of earthly vanity inculcated by Christianity may have swallowed it up in humility.

  Herman Melville

  Taken, Humility, Greatness

  Herman Melville (2001). “Tales, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• La riqueza procedente del comercio fue el principal motor del avance material de Occidente; los agentes visibles del cambio fueron las grandes armas. Éstas alcanzaron su madurez en Europa en el siglo XV. En tierra, su potencia para reducir las murallas de los castillos favoreció al poder central frente al local, ya que en general sólo los monarcas podían permitirse trenes de asedio; así, las naciones-estado se consolidaron y extendieron hasta convertirse en grandes imperios territoriales. En el mar, los cañones transformaron los veleros en castillos móviles prácticamente inexpugnables para los adversarios que carecían de artillería igualmente poderosa. Con los buques de guerra artillados, Europa occidental comenzó a extenderse por todo el mundo.

  Peter Padfield

  Muro, Potente, Océano

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• 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, 1er Vizconde Bolingbroke

  Infinite, Reverence, Monarchy

  "Patriot King" in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 224-226), 1904.

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• The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

  Charles Sumner

  War, Greatness, Men

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• Después de Darwin, el papel de Dios pasa de ser el diseñador de todas las criaturas, grandes y pequeñas, a ser el diseñador de las leyes de la naturaleza, a partir de las cuales puede desarrollarse la selección natural, a ser quizá sólo el elegidor de las leyes. En el momento en que el papel de Dios ha disminuido tanto, se convierte un poco en un monarca constitucional, que preside ceremonialmente pero no tiene más trabajo que hacer. Ese es un lugar para Dios, si hace que la gente se sienta cómoda manteniendo a Dios como el que preside el universo. Supongo que eso satisface a muchos.

  Daniel Dennett

  Derecho, Personas, Funciones

  "Grandes pensadores de la evolución". Entrevista NOVA, www.pbs.org. 6 de octubre de 2009.

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• La monarquía puede ser fácilmente "desacreditada", pero observen los rostros, observen bien a los desacreditadores. Estos son los hombres a los que se les ha cortado la raíz del Edén, a los que no llega el rumor de la polifonía, de la danza, hombres para los que los guijarros colocados en fila son más bellos que un arco. Allí donde los hombres tienen prohibido honrar a un rey, honran en su lugar a millonarios, atletas o estrellas de cine: Porque la naturaleza espiritual, como la corporal, será servida; niégale el alimento y engullirá veneno.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hermoso, Espiritual, Estrellas

  "Equality". The Spectator, Volumen CLXXI, archive.spectator.co.uk. 27 de agosto de 1943.

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• Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them.

  Herman Melville

  Kings, Twenties, Violence

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.439, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Two, Mistress, Together

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.56

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• Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
  [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

  Horace

  People, Royalty

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• George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Kings, Would Be, Duty

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• It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Country, Stars, Children

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.250

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