Absolute Monarchy Quotes

• 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.

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  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government   Hands   Law  

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.

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  Ambrose Bierce

  Long   Doe   Assassins  

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

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  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy   Men   Order  

  "Essays". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 17: "Of Superstition", 1625.

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• Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

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  Francis Bacon

  Atheist   Philosophy   Men  

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• To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be defined an absolute monarchy disguised by the forms of a commonwealth. The masters of the Roman world surrounded their throne with darkness, concealed their irresistible strength, and humbly professed themselves the accountable ministers of the senate, whose supreme decrees they dictated and obeyed.

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  Edward Gibbon

  Government   People   History  

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.108, e-artnow

  1782

• America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

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  Florence King

  Kings   Children   Kids  

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.30, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

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  Thomas Hobbes

  Power   Long   Leviathan  

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

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  David Hume

  Death   Constitution   Euthanasia  

  David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.32

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• In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

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  Garry Kasparov

  Chess   Bigamy   Monarchy  

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• 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.

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  Edmund Burke

  Government   Democracy   Helping  

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.583, Transaction Publishers

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