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

topic: Long, Doe, Assassins, Absolute Monarchy

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

- Edmund Burke

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

topic: Government, Democracy, Helping, Absolute Monarchy

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

- Thomas Hobbes

topic: Power, Long, Able, Leviathan, Absolute Monarchy

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

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

topic: Kings, Children, Kids, Upstairs, Absolute Monarchy

In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.

- Garry Kasparov

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

topic: Chess, Bigamy, Monarchy, Absolute Monarchy

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

topic: Atheist, Philosophy, Men, Theism, Monarchs

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Government, Hands, Law, Absolute Monarchy

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

- David Hume

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

topic: Death, Constitution, Euthanasia, Absolute Monarchy, British Constitution

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

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

topic: Philosophy, Men, Order, Absolute Monarchy

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

source: 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

topic: Government, People, History, Roman Empire, Absolute Monarchy