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Quotes About Kings

Wisdom's slaves are better than folly's kings.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The night is Ours. Rejoicing in the ethereal realms where We are kings. Blessed souls of forgotten immortality. They fear Us in every grasp.
~ Luis Marques
In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
~ Xunzi
Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.
~ Solomon
Why were kings cross? Maybe their trains were late! Some say warrior Queen Boudica was buried under platform 8.
~ Terry Deary
We are kings who represent the King of kings to the people of the earth. That is our ministry of reconciliation. But we also are "priests to our God," representing the peoples of the earth to our High Priest. In other words, we "stand in the gap before [God] on behalf of the land" (Ezek. 22:30). We are the "go-betweens." In a word, we intercede.
~ Terry Law
Though the President is Commander-in-Chief, Congress is his commander; and, God willing, he shall obey. He and his minions shall learn that this is not a Government of kings and satraps, but a Government of the people, and that Congress is the people.
~ Thaddeus Stevens
The Christ speaks: Wherever you are, whatever you do, you will be restless until you turn to God. Does it upset you when a day doesn't go according to your plan? Is there anyone who has everything for which one could wish? No, not one. Kings and popes are not exempt. Disappointment affects everyone. Doldrums corner even the most devout unless they are among the few who are able to endure hardship willingly without complaining.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Democracy, on this new occasion, finds all Kings conscious that they are but Play-actors.
~ Thomas Carlyle
We have no intention of being the fashion kings they're trying to make us out to be.
~ Fab Moretti
The faster you strip cultures down, the more you find contrariness and disputation, rather than a solid core, until eventually you reach the individual, a mammal shaped by evolution, material needs, cognitive biases and historical circumstances no doubt, but still a creature with a better right to state his opinions than kings and clerics have to silence them.
~ Nick Cohen
One day the wickedness of the kings of the world would destroy us, oh sorrow, and armies of the world would march upon us, wailing, and the purest of the children of God would have to deliver themselves unto the Lord by their own hand. The Deliverance.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
See who I am, whose great age, exhausted and decayed and past the fertile time for truth, deludes me with imaginary dread when I prophesy of warring kings! Look now at this. I come from the Dread Sisters' station; and in my hand I bear war and death.
~ Virgil
To the Priory of Sion, the secret organization described in the novel "The DaVinci Code," the Bear was an animal of the Goddess Diana. The Merovingian kings, from their founder Merovee to Clovis (who converted to Christianity in 496) were kings who worshipped the Goddess Diana.
~ Laurence Galian
Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on servility and shrink before independence. They feed upon worship as kings do upon flattery. That is why the cry of gods at all times is "Worship us or we perish." A dethroned monarch may retain some of his human dignity while driving a taxi for a living. But a god without his thunderbolt is a poor object.
~ Chapman Cohen
Shepherds, did they but know it, walk through greater halls than kings.
~ Charles Boardman Hawes
Evil seldom takes shape immediately. It is often little more than a whisper at first. A glance. A betrayal. But then it grows and takes root, still invisible, unnoticed. Only fairy tales give evil a proper shape. The big bad wolves, the evil kings, the demons, and devils . . .
~ Guillermo del Toro
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
~ Guru Nanak
Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
~ Guru Nanak
The dogmas whose birth we are witnessing will soon have the force of the old dogmas; that is to say, the tyrannical and sovereign force of being above discussion. The divine right of the masses is about to replace the divine right of kings.
~ Gustave Le Bon
I am trying to say that what has happened to you is a hard thing, even if there is war somewhere. Even if emperors and kings die. You are entitled to your rage.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
The Church of Christ is constituted in two orders, the clergy and the people, the one having the care of the Church that all may be ruled for the salvation of souls; the other contains kings, princes, and nobles who have to carry on secular government that all things may lead to the peace and unity of the Church.
~ Thomas Becket
Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson