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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
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.
The partial exception to our London-centric state institutions is the monarchy, which has always had peripatetic tendencies.
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.
From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?
From creating a new sovereign to affairs of the heart, majestic moments to everyday life, when monarchy wants to send a message it uses a photograph.
I've spent a bit of time with the Prince of Wales, who I respect greatly. I'd give two cheers for the Monarchy.
My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
I think the monarchy today is.?.?. mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go.
Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich.
Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.
The rule of law is a republic. The rule of one person is a monarchy.
Some people think the NDP may want to get rid of the monarchy but I can assure you that that's absolutely not the case. My Dad was a big time monarchist and so am I.
Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.
The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class.
I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that?
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.
Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?
Oligopoly is an imperfect monopoly. Like the despotism of the Dual Monarchy, it is saved only by its incompetence.
I think if the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set.
I'm in favour of more democracy - let the British public decide what the future of the monarchy is and what shape it should be.
If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible
My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.
When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
The role of photography in crisis and recovery is fascinating, a dance between providing access and destroying the magic and mystique of the monarchy.
I quite like the Queen. Now, this must come as a fairly amazing statement for someone who is avowedly left wing, pro-independence and anti-monarchy, but there you go.
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.
I was born on July 23rd, 1906, in Sarajevo in the province of Bosnia, which then belonged to the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy and later, in 1918, became part of Yugoslavia.
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.
Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.
Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran.
A constitutional monarchy requires the monarch to be above politics but to be fully informed about politics.
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's the thing. They have to.
I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.
In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.
The monarchy needs publicity: they must be seen to be relevant. Unfortunately, they can't just lead quiet lives.
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.
