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“Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!”

Ifs Love Love Is Cutting Feet Ready Kings Cost Garden True Love Servant Marketplace Misers Elixir

Author:Al-Ghazali

“When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost the reality of power. The English, having cut off the head of one of their kings and chased another off the throne, still go on their knees to address the successors of those princes. On the other hand, when a republic falls under one man's yoke, the ruler's demeanor remains simple, unaffected, and modest, as if he had not already been raised above everybody.”

Source: Democracy in America

“The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything.... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.”

Thinking Men Should Mean Long God Use Names Cutting Kings Mouths Refusal Hideous Sloth Usage Short Cuts Shorthand

Author:Arthur Adamov

“Royal relationships across the generations have often been strained and distant, rather than close and affectionate. Most eldest sons, interminably waiting to become king, have not been on the best of terms with the sovereign to whose death they look forward with a debilitating combination of guilt-ridden anxiety and eager anticipation. And younger sons (and daughters, too) have often found their lives empty of purpose: cut off by their royal statius, but unable to find anything rewarding with which to fill the time.”

“Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.”

“There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.”

People Age Used Cutting Poet Kings Tongue Jail Songwriters Payroll

Author:Pete Seeger

“A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.”

States Bits Cutting Sea Kings Ships Captains

Book:White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

“Most Young Kings Get Their Heads Cut Off.”

Young Cutting Kings

Book:Poiesis: aspects of contemporary poetic activity

Source: Poiesis: aspects of contemporary poetic activity

“Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.”

Ifs Humans Long Human Beings Cutting Kings Corporate Bureaucracy Knights

Author:Alvin Toffler

“Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection.”

Ifs Way Self Helping Moving Powerful Cutting Dangerous Kings Higher Reflection Criticism Accountability Repentance Righteousness Usual Luther Dangerous Things Self Criticism

Author:Jim Wallis

“It is easy to criticize and find fault with the conduct of kings, and write furious articles against them in newspapers, or make violent speeches about them on platforms. Any fool can rip and rend a costly garment, but not every man can cut out and make one. To expect perfection in kings, prime ministers, or rulers of any king, is senseless and unreasonable. We would exhibit more wisdom if we prayed for them more, and criticized less.”

Source: The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times

“Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.”

Individual Known Technology Cutting Kings Currents Luther

Author:Clarence Benjamin Jones

“Don King ain't a bad guy. He cut my earnings, but I don't hold any hard feelings toward him.”

Hard Feelings Guy Cutting Kings Earning Bad Guys

Author:Larry Holmes

“Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.”

Mind Said Cutting Kings All Things Letters Including Accidents Guides Giants Puddleglum

Book:The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair

Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair