Absolute Monarchy Quotes

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Long, Doe, Assassins

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). "El diccionario del diablo: El mundo del diablo", p.7, 谷月社.

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• No puedo evitar coincidir con la opinión de que una democracia absoluta, no más que una monarquía absoluta, debe considerarse entre las formas legítimas de gobierno.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, Democracy, Helping

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.583, Transaction Publishers

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• Se entiende que la obligación de los súbditos para con el soberano dura tanto, y no más, que el poder por el que éste es capaz de protegerlos.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Poder, Largo, Leviatán

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). "Leviatán: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil", p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically more of an American than his parents. Americans regard children as what Mr. Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs called betters. Aping their betters, American adults do their best to turn themselves into children. Puerility exercises droit de seigneur everywhere.

  Florence King

  Kings, Children, Kids

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.30, St. Martin's Griffin

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• In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

  Garry Kaspárov

  Chess, Bigamy, Monarchy

  Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

  Francis Bacon

  Ateo, Filosofía, Hombres

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• La riqueza poseída por una clase y utilizada ambiciosamente se vuelve tan despótica como una monarquía absoluta, y tiene en sus manos los modales, las costumbres, las leyes, las instituciones y los propios gobiernos.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government, Hands, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher William Drysdale (1887). "Proverbios del Púlpito de Plymouth"

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

  David Hume

  Death, Constitution, Euthanasia

  David Hume (1862). “Essays moral, political, and literary. (Life of the author, etc.).”, p.32

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• 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.

  Francis Bacon

  Filosofía, Hombres, Orden

  "Essays". Book by Francis Bacon. Chapter 17: "Of Superstition", 1625.

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• 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.

  Edward Gibbon

  Government, People, History

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “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”, p.108, e-artnow

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