Corey Stoll Quotes

The king is from God, the law from the king.

As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.

The conservatives say they are protecting the values of society. They are protecting their privileges.

The great families have their privileges.

Only great noblemen and valiant warriors are given license to build a home with a second story; for disobeying this law the penalty is death.

People used to respect royalty to an insane extent that doesn't exist nowadays. These people never shouted. They never moved, really. Their effort was minimum. They were the most powerful people, but they were just calm.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

In Gravity clad, He has nought in his Head, But Visions of Nobles & Kings With Commons below, Who respectfully bow, And worship the dignified Things

Political power, considered in general, not descending in particular to monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, comes directly from God alone.

I am accused of creating dukes, barons and knights. But who gave the white man the sole right to create the social order.

Keep up the middle class; lop off aristocracy on the one hand, and a rabble at the other; let the middle class ... have the power.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life

To despise legitimate authority, no matter in whom it is invested, is unlawful; it is rebellion against God's will.

The present King and Queen are popular, very, and increasingly so, but they have no message for the Labour Party who believe them, and rightly I fear, to be but the puppets of a Palace clique…. Still, it is the aristocracy which still rules England although nobody seems to believe it.

In Spain the king rules, but in the Sierra I do.

There is nothing democratic about the Whig. He is essentially a cold and selfish aristocrat who believes that the British Empire was created by Providence and exists for no other purpose than to keep in power a few Whig families.

The Duke’s Laws

Order is Heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are, and must be greater than the rest -

Monarchy and aristocracy, valuable and useful as I think them, are still valuable and useful as means, and not as ends.

… if one person owns the preponderance of land in a given territory, the result is monarchy; if a few own it, we have aristocracy; if the whole people be landlords, it is a commonwealth.

Commerce and politics do not go with royalty, full stop.

It's a primitive thing, kings and queens.

I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that?