Quotes by Divine Right Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb. Ambrose Bierce divine-rightinvestingbombs Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right. This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today. Bill Moyers divine-rightinspirationopportunity Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself. C. Wright Mills divine-rightkingspeople Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony. Dar Williams hegemonydivine-rightpast Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right. Florence Scovel Shinn divine-rightspiritway All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways. Florence Scovel Shinn divine-rightgraceway There is no separation in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and companionship which are mine by divine right. Florence Scovel Shinn companionshipdivine-rightmind The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right. Frank Rich divine-rightstageactors Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world. George Osborne divine-rightcountryworld The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights. Gilbert K. Chesterton divine-rightrightsmen We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. Harold MacMillan divine-rightkingsfall Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. Herbert Spencer divine-rightkingsmean I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor. James Otis divine-rightsweathands We need some remedial training on how to live as subjects in a kingdom. We may be justified in rejecting the divine right of kings to rule but we cannot be justified if we reject the rule of our divine king. Joe Carter divine-righttrainingkings The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers." John Adams divine-rightcharactermean The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods. King James I divine-rightthroneskings When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active. Leonardo DiCaprio divine-rightcockybelieve In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states. Leo Tolstoy divine-rightgovernmentlaw I am totally free to choose thoughts of joy. It is my Divine right to do so. Louise Hay divine-rightdivinejoy I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease in any way. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now. Louise Hay divine-rightpatternsperfect12»
