Konstantin N. Leontiev Quotes

When rich men are thus brought to regard themselves as trustees, and poor men learn to be industrious, economical, temperate, self-denying, and diligent in the acquisition of knowledge, then the deplorable strife between capital and labor, tending to destroy their fundamental, necessary, and irrefragable harmony will cease, and the world will no longer be afflicted with such unnatural industrial conflicts as we have seen during the past century...

In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.

I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.

All monarchies have a common characteristic...and that is stubbornness.

Kings are the publick Pillars of the State Born to sustain and prop the Nation's weight.

Kings are for nations in swaddling clothes.

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.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

It is impossible to place labor and capital in harmonious or friendly relations, except by the means of slavery

In republics the executive must be strongest because everything conspires against it, while in monarchies the legislature must be strongest, because everything conspires in favour of the monarch

… the imaginations of men are exceedingly prone to deify and worship them [kings]; though, to the great misfortune of mankind, they are more commonly fiends, than angels.

For the first time in my life, I have to grab the monks by the throat. Me! The most religious man in the Kingdom! Because I've had enough- more than enough! My subjects and the elite among my subjects must obey!

Don't call me 'sir; 'King Jew' will do fine.

I'm going to be the next king of the Earth.

At the end of the day, I'm the king. I'm in my throne, you know? If you want to come see me, come see me.

Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

King chiller. That was me.

I'm the king of Dublin.

When you're the king of someplace, you don't voluntarily leave.

The thing with crowns is, it isn't the putting them on that's the problem, it's the taking them off.

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

That might sound shocking to some - and don't worry, I don't see myself as a king.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.