Home / Topics / Kings Quotes

Kings Quotes

Browse 3906 quotes about Kings.

Kings Quotes

“It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome.”

People Ifs Done Wisdom Politics Causes Economy Democracy Depends Kings Authority Vices Kingdoms Liberalism Rome Consent Vice Versa Aristocracy Magistrates People Can Change

Author:Robert Bellarmine

“We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.”

Mean Littles Real Philosophy Certain History Depends Kings Battle Conjecture

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.”

Book Real Sometimes Helping Hands Accepting Wise Imagine Fool Depends Ought Kings Dignity Importance Titles Merit Slender

Book:Essays and The Bee

Source: Essays and The Bee

“The animal's heart is the basis of its life, its chief member, the sun of its microcosm; on the heart all its activity depends, from the heart all its liveliness and strength arise. Equally is the king the basis of his kingdoms, the sun of his microcosm, the heart of the state; from him all power arises and all grace stems.”

Heart States Animal Sun Grace Depends Kings Activity Members Bases Arise Kingdoms Chiefs Stem Microcosm

Book:Movement of the heart and blood in animals: an anatomical essay

Source: Movement of the heart and blood in animals: an anatomical essay

“The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the ten thousand things but the people do not depend on him. With him there is no promotion or praise - he lets everything find its own enjoyment. He takes his stand on what cannot be fathomed and wanders where there is nothing at all.”

People World Government Influence Depends Kings Thousand Ten Achievement Praise Wander Enjoyment Enlightened Promotion Transforming Blanket

Book:Zhuangzi: Basic Writings

Source: Zhuangzi: Basic Writings

“Power always becomes consolidated back into the hands of very few people... whether they be an economic aristocracy, a royalty, a monarchy which is the most concentrated form of oligarchy where it depends on one King who is ordained supposedly by God to rule.”

People Hands Form Economic Depends Kings Royalty Monarchy Aristocracy Oligarchy

Author:Immortal Technique

“King Hussein of Jordan dedicated his life - I witnessed it in his sleeping as well as waking hours - to trying to break through the impasses keeping people apart. He understood that the security and prosperity of any one of us in this world depends on the security and prosperity enjoyed by others. As Martin Luther King said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." In the Middle East, nothing could be more true.”