Divine Right Quotes

• 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

  Kings, Thrones, Earth

  Speech to Parliament at Whitehall, March 21, 1609.

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• The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

  John Adams

  Character, Mean, People

  'A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law' (1765)

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

  Harold MacMillan

  Kings, Fall, Experts

  1950 Speech, Strasbourg,16 Aug.

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

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Kings, Capitalism, Seems

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.115, Small Beer Press

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• 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

  Kings, Husband, Afterlife

  'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 3

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

  Herbert Spencer

  Kings, Mean, Atheism

  Herbert Spencer (1873). “Social Statics; Or, The Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, & the First of Them Developed”, p.124

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• When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love, Husband, Passion

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• Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Resistance, Divine Right Of Kings

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.115, Small Beer Press

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• Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Changed, Humans, Human Power

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a WriterÕs Week”, p.115, Small Beer Press

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• A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Wisdom, Freedom

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• Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Parent, Bears, Settling

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• Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Men, Thinking, Religion

  Matilda Joslyn Gage (1893). “Woman, Church and State: A Historical Account of the Status of Woman Through the Christian Ages: with Reminiscences of Matriarchate”

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• Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

  Dar Williams

  Past, Hegemony, Empires

  Source: progressive.org

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• We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

  William Henry Harrison

  Believe, Men, Presidential

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease in any way. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now.

  Louise Hay

  Perfect, Patterns, Way

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• There is no separation in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and companionship which are mine by divine right.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Mind, Companionship, Separation

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Complete Game of Life and How to Play It: The Classic Text with Commentary, Study Questions, Action Items, and Much Mor”, p.57, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist. The time is past when we can be content with our social fabric merely because it is "ordained by divine right," or by the majesty of the law.

  Emma Goldman

  Past, Average, Law

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.63, 谷月社

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• The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others. Why allow the other fellow to bluff you?

  Marcus Garvey

  Running, Men, Race

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.10, Ravenio Books

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• Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

  C. S. Lewis

  Exercise, Animal, Men

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• Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

  George Osborne

  Country, World, Britain

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Government, Law, Use

  Leo Tolstoy, M. K. Gandhi (2016). “A LETTER TO A HINDU (A Fascinating View on Love and Non-Violence): Including Correspondences with Gandhi & Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby”, p.31, e-artnow

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• Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Way, Spirit, Infinite

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2013). “Your Word is Your Wand: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Humans make the mistake of believing that it is their right to survive. Species die out on this planet all the time without anyone noticing. The planet will still be there, and we must lose this attitude of divine right, that something will save us.

  Sting

  Attitude, Mistake, Believe

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• They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Heart, Men, Rights

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.518, Best Books on

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• Management has no divine rights.

  Walter Reuther

  Struggle, Rights, Management

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