Divine Right Of Kings Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin, King James I, Mary Wollstonecraft, Herbert Spencer, Charles Koch, Benjamin Disraeli and many others.
Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings
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.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
America was the first country in history to be founded on, people have rights. Not the divine right of kings, not the emperor’s a god, or idolized, or we have to do what the dear leader says. And, expressly, that it’s a system of equal rights, and then governments are instituted to secure those rights.
The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
