12 Monarchs Quotes for You to Enjoy

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. Epicurus

Life Free Possessions Easy Free Life Because Without Mobs Cannot Acquire Many Monarchs Servility

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states. Elizabeth I

Death War Enemies Ought States Dangers Put Authors Monarchs Sworn

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished. Mary Wollstonecraft

World Progress Mind Will Long Ministers Abolish Freeing Deadly Itself Human Stops Which Human Mind Grasp Monarchs Whose Slavery

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. Horace Walpole

Naked Ambition High Foot Were Oh Place Monarchs Seated Necks

Unlike monarchs, who pass power to their heirs at the moment of death to ensure the survival of the regime, tyrants must simply survive as long as possible. Simon Sebag Montefiore

Death Survival Long Power Unlike Tyrants Ensure Possible Must Simply Pass Survive Regime Heirs Moment Who Monarchs

Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings and sculpture. But before the 20th century, such dynasts rarely commissioned artworks that set out to represent society as a whole. Linda Colley

Happy Before Society Other Possessions Out Wealthy Rarely Aristocrat Individuals Powerful Been Families Commissioned Represent Oil Century Themselves Sculpture Whole Paintings Monarchs Set

If you or I had lived 500 years ago, our worldview, and the decisions we made as a result, would have been utterly different. Our minds are shaped by our social environment, in particular the belief systems projected by those in power: monarchs, aristocrats and theologians then; corporations, billionaires and the media today. George Monbiot

Today You Result Worldview Made Power Our Minds Projected Corporations Those Systems Would Shaped Had Environment Aristocrat Particular Been Years Years Ago Different Decisions Social Then Theologians Billionaires Belief Lived Media Monarchs Utterly

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic. David Liss

Time Trouble Power Practice Those Has-Been Religions Magic Democratic Also Because Practices Around Were Been Celebrated Forever Precisely Inherently Organized Monarchs Ever Actually Suggesting

A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on great democratic societies but on imperialism, absolute rule, kings, queens, monarchs, dictators. Rocky Carroll

Great History You World Free Society Books Rule Kings Absolute Imperialism Look Democratic Democratic Societies Democratic Society Queens Norm History Books Dictators Monarchs Based World History Societies

The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. Tom Chatfield

History Writing Words Reading Lasting Emerged Recorded Remained Priests Noble Most Known Around Years Years Ago Province Privilege Southern Human Themselves Who Reserved Monarchs Activities Among Earliest Elite