Quotes About Nobles

Richard had not been minded to levy any tax at all upon the common people. "Why should they pay of the little they have, when there is immeasurable wealth in the hands of a few nobles?

Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

22Fidalgo derives from filho d'algo—literally, the "son of somebody"—though it later became a generic term for nobility.

Don't expel a man from his father's property, Don't reduce the nobles in their possessions.

the family feuds of the nobles were beyond control. Revenge was regarded rather as an act of private justice than as a crime. The remotest members of a clan were bound by the obligations of the vendetta, which had its special home in Italy. Its history in the Middle Ages is largely one of family feuds that turned into wars. These ended either by the extermination of one party or by the intervention of the emperor or the church, imposing reconciliation and indemnities.

The nobles were fighting men, the descendants of fighting men. They were proud of their vassalage, a word we have tinged with derogation. But today most of us are, have been, or will be employees; no employee has the right to look down on a vassal.

a war between rulers was converted into a war between peoples, with each people coming to the defense of its rulers in the erroneous belief that the rulers were defending them. This device of "nationalism" has only been successful, in Western civilization, in recent centuries; it was not too long ago that the mass of subjects regarded wars as irrelevant battles between various sets of nobles

the first flush of aristocratic support for the Covenant had begun to wear off when the nobles found themselves being ordered about by middle-class clerics with vaguely egalitarian views and a deep distrust of human pleasures.

The few individuals who are capable of spontaneous and joyous effort stand out. These are the select men, the nobles, the only ones who are active and not merely reactive, for whom life is a perpetual striving, an incessant course of training.

Would you rather have the lords and nobles back? What is Democracy for? Not so we can rob each other. Or cheat.' I said cheat and felt the teeth in it, the cleat, the cut, the eat.

But God did not lay His hand on the nobles of Israel; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.

The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,

Then the survivors came down to the nobles; the people of the LORD came down to me against the mighty.

He also took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate. They seated King Joash on the royal throne,

and after serious thought I rebuked the nobles and officials, saying, “You are exacting usury from your own brothers!” So I called a large assembly against them

Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiahís good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.

Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:

Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day?

In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.

He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.

The nobles of the nations have assembled as the people of the God of Abraham; for the shields of the earth belong to God; He is highly exalted.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.