No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!
إن بلادنا في حاجة إلى جرعات قوية من قلة الأدب حيال الملوك حتى تفيق من إغمائها الطويل
When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.
Dad, I admonished lightly. You can't threaten the King. You'll be pooping in buckets by nightfall.I don't care, he retorted. I'd poop in buckets for the rest of my life if it means your heart was safe...
Every king springs from a race of slaves, and every slave had kings among his ancestors.
He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king.
The tall, thin serious man strode in, his dark cloak billowing so dramatically it threatened to extinguish the lamp flame with its draught. He advanced like a malevolent shadow consuming the dim orang...
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleepi...
Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.
War is the trade of Kings.
There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengean...
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light declaration about freedom in the other. And then an outlaw sticks a pistol in his face and says give me...
All kings must be butchers or meat.
His was a lonely, unorthodox conviction that war was man's ultimate failure.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Why do the Gods make kings and queens if not to protect the ones who can't protect themselves?