“I saw in 'the wandering Jew' the personification of the Jewish people, exiled in the Middle Ages. Nevertheless, they are once again extremely rich, owing to their unfailing rude greediness and their indefatigable activity. With their hard-heartedness that they extend toward people of other faiths and races they are at the point of making themselves kings of the world. This people can thank its obstinacy that France will be Judized within fifty years. Already some wise Jews prophesy this frankly.” PeopleWorldYearsHardAgeRaceRichSawsWiseMiddleKingsActivityJewWanderFranceFiftyNeverthelessRudeMiddle AgesOwingObstinacyPersonificationGreediness Author:George Sand
“This world is not a middle point in evolution. It's one step down from the middle point in evolution. This is the world of desire and fulfillment, frustration, but at least once in a while you can go to Burger King.” WorldDesireHumanityStepsMiddleThis WorldBuddhismEvolutionKingsFulfillmentFrustrationBurgersBurger King Author:Frederick Lenz
“Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.” IfsThinkingWorldStatesWould BeStrongUnitedUnited StatesMiddlePolicyKingsWeakSickFundamentalsWideOilEastSignificantFamiliarIranMiddle EastUnlikelyConsensusSaudisArab WorldYemenSignificant ChangeBahrainKing Abdullah Author:Elliott Abrams
“Today President Obama is in the Middle East. He met the new king of Saudi Arabia. Obama also met Saudi Arabia's first lady, the second lady, third lady, and fourth lady.” FirstsTodayPresidentMiddleKingsMetsThirdsEastPresident ObamaMiddle EastFourthArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisFirst Lady Author:Conan O'Brien
“Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for musicians. The kings and queens had musicians in the castles, and that developed into symphony orchestras and what we call "Classical music" now.” WayAgePayMiddleKingsMusicianEuropeQueensOrchestraCastlesMiddle AgesSymphonyClassical MusicOld DaysAristocracyKings And QueensSymphony Orchestras Author:Pete Seeger
“The office of Speaker is almost as ancient as Parliament itself. It emerged in the Middle Ages when the Commons - the ordinary people - of England needed a spokesman in their dealings with the King, someone who would voice their grievances and present their petitions. This was by no means a safe or easy thing to do at that time, and potential spokesman generally had to be pressured into accepting the responsibility.” PeopleMeanAgeEasyVoiceResponsibilityAcceptingMiddleKingsNeededSafeOfficeOrdinaryEnglandAncientThings To DoSpeakersParliamentOrdinary PeopleMiddle AgesGrievancePetitionsDealingsEasy ThingsPressured Book:The House of Commons at Work Source: The House of Commons at Work
“That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.” HardClassMiddleWillingColdKingsMassGlassesEducatedIceServantMiddle ClassSentimentalBrutalityCowardlySusceptibleServility Author:Alfred Doblin
“In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the church also sheltered them. The need for shelter - for a father image that cares and will hopefully provide and give some meaning to human lives - remains as real as it was in the Middle Ages, but modern technocracy has no place for either the father or the church and provides no substitute.” NeedsGivingHumansRealCareAgeFatherChurchModernMiddleSubjectsReturnKingsRemainsProtectionLoyaltyHopefullyHuman LifeSubstitutesProtectedShelterMiddle Ages Book:The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America
“I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsMadeSaidCertainResponsibilityClassMiddleBrotherKingsMassYears AgoShouldersMade ItMiddle ClassBrothers And SistersLuther Author:Angela Davis
“The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.” PeopleEnoughAgeAbleLawMiddleKingsPostsBoardsMiddle AgesIlliterateConfidant Author:John Roberts
“If you're the King of Jordan, if you're a part of the royal family in Saudi Arabia and he's made this deal with Iran which gives them $150 billion to wage a war and try to extend their empire across the Middle East, why would you want to do it now? When I stand across from King Hussein of Jordan and I say to him, "You have a friend again sir, who will stand with you to fight this fight," he'll change his mind.” IfsWantGivingTryingMindMadeWarFightingDealsMiddleKingsEastBillionsEmpiresIranMiddle EastRoyalHusseinJordanArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisRoyal FamilyFriends Again Author:Chris Christie
“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.” PeopleWorldTryingWellsSaidHoursJusticeSleepBreakMiddleSecurityThis WorldDependsKingsUnderstoodThreatInjusticeProsperityEastEnjoyedWakingDedicatedMiddle EastHusseinLutherJordanBreak ThroughImpasseInjustice Anywhere Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“You know, I'm allowed to f--king date, I haven't seen this guy in three years. We're in the middle of a divorce. For a woman, she has to wait. For a man, who cares? That's what it's painted as.” KnowsMenYearsCareGuyThreeWaitingMiddleHavensKingsDivorceThree YearsWho CaresThis Guy Author:Khloe Kardashian
“I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.” IfsThinkingLooksBlackClassMiddleKingsBackgroundsMiddle ClassLutherRationale Author:Ella Baker
“Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something.” Has BeensEnoughFactsCertainValuesClassRolesToo MuchMiddleKingsIndependentIndependenceAcceptedResistanceRecognitionExplanationMiddle ClassLuther Author:Ella Baker
“I have a place in New England. It's in the middle of nowhere, like horror movie style - Stephen King-ville. It's a good kind of retreat for me to regroup my thoughts and work. I split time: 50 percent there, 50 percent in New York” KindMiddleStyleNew YorkKingsHorrorPercentEnglandSplitsRetreatMy ThoughtsNew EnglandMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Taylor Momsen
“The whole positioning and atmosphere of the song ["King of the Mountain"] was to build up this thunderstorm that would take us all onstage off into a story where we were suddenly in the middle of the ocean.” WholeStoriesSongMiddleKingsMountainOceanAtmosphereThunderstorm Author:Kate Bush
“They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.” IfsMenHumansHateHumanitySpeakNationsEffortRaceClassMiddleMankindStrangeKingsDespairSoldierCuriousMiddle ClassPriestsAdoreDistrustHumaneSailorDividingWorking Man Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Advice, then, young yeoman: When referring to the king's middle daughter, state that she is fair, speculate that she is pious, but unless you'd like to spend your watch looking for the box where your head is kept, resist the urge to wax ignorant on her naughty bits." -Pocket I don't know what that means, sir." -Yeoman Speak not of Regan's shaggacity, son" [...] -Pocket” KnowsMeanStatesYoungSpeakBitsWatchesMiddleAdviceSonKingsDaughterFairsBoxesIgnorantPocketsUrgesNaughtyPiousReferringReganYeoman Book:Fool: A Novel Source: Fool: A Novel