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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.”

Two Names Influence Honor Absolutes Court Enjoyed Phenomenon Republic Attributes Usual Rulers Etiquette Monarchy Despotism Monarchs Regal

Book:Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction

Source: Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction

“In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.”

Absolutes Chess Acceptable Monarchy Bigamy Absolute Monarchy

Book:How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.”

States Character Government Form Color Absolutes Conservative Republic Nazi Monarchy Fascists Static Bolsheviks Constitutional Monarchy

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“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.”

Helping Government Form Opinion Democracy Absolutes Monarchy Forms Of Government Absolute Monarchy

Book:Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches

“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.”

Source: 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

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

Death Constitution Absolutes British Britain Monarchy Euthanasia British Constitution Absolute Monarchy

Book:Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).

Source: Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).

“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.”

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

Long Doe Please Absolutes Sovereign Monarchy Assassins Absolute Monarchy

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World