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• Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

  Isaac Asimov

  Names, Two, Honor

  Isaac Asimov (1991). “Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Light, Flames, Secret

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.

  Louis Aragon

  Important, Vitality, Rebel

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• All things are subject to decay and change.

  Polybius

  Decay, Subjects, All Things

  Polybius (1812). “The General History of the Wars of the Romans”, p.401

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• In a democracy, every ordinary citizen is effectively a king--but a king in a constitutional democracy, a monarch who decides only formally, whose function is merely to sign off on measures proposed by an executive administration. This is why the problem with democratic rituals is homologous to the great problem of constitutional monarchy: how to protect the dignity of the king? How to maintain the appearance that the king effectively makes decisions, when we all know this not to be true?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Kings, Decision, Democracy

  Slavoj Žižek (2009). “First As Tragedy, Then As Farce”, p.134, Verso

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• I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

  William the Silent

  People, Choices, Want

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• Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

  Ilana Mercer

  Queens, Hands, Life And Death

  "Mobocracy vs. Monarchy". www.wnd.com. May 20, 2011.

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• Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord.....In the royal city of the east, they have slain the successor of Constantine and his people, desecrated the temples of the Lord, defiled the noble church of Justinian with their Mohometan abominations. Each success, will only be a stepping stone until he has mastered all the Western Monarchs, overthrow the Christian Faith, and imposed the law of his false prophet on the whole world

  Pope Pius II

  Christian, Law, Cities

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• There are important arguments to be made about the relative merits of an hereditary or an elected head of state: but not at the level of the human frailties of particular monarchs or presidents. No one seriously contends that the American presidency should be abolished because Bill Clinton is a self-confessed adulterer. So why should the abolition of the British monarchy be contemplated because the same is true of Prince Charles?

  David Cannadine

  Self, Important, President

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, Penguin Group USA

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• She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother.

  Prince Andrew

  Mother, Fit, Staff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Charlie Chaplin

  Light, Ego

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• The gates of monarchs
  Are arched so high that giants may jet through
  And keep their impious turbans on without
  Good morrow to the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Giants, May, Sun

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.72, Palgrave Macmillan

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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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• The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

  Richard Whately

  Rewards, Pleasure, Should

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• Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Women, Feet, Mind

  Mary Abigail Dodge (1871). “Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to "A New Atmosphere"”, p.289

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

  John Milton

  Change, Fear, Twilight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 594

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• Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch, cross a great sea, and establish a new nation, so, too, the children of Great Britain were led by God to leave the land of their religious oppression, cross a great ocean, inhabit a promised land, and, eventually, resist a "tyrannical" George III and create a new nation in "God's American Israel."

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Religious, Children, Ocean

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  John Roberts

  Taxation, Levels, Authority

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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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• MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Persons, Subjects

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.145, 谷月社

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• For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.

  Elizabeth I

  Leadership, Thinking, Safety

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