Bhumibol Adulyadej Quotes

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

You are afraid of the one, I, of the few.... You are apprehensive of monarchy, I, of aristocracy.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

If the king did not, without tiring, inflict punishment on those worthy to be punished, the stronger would roast the weaker, like fish on a spit

The natural course of power is to make the many slaves to the few.

Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?

Nature rejects the monarch, not the man; The subject, not the citizen; for kings And subjects, mutual foes, forever play A losing game into each other's hands, Whose stakes are vice and misery. The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.

In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

I remember being taught my place.

I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.

We had thought you had been ruler over your land ... but now we perceive that there be other men that do rule, and not men but peasants and merchants ... and you flow in your maidenly estate like a maid.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.

It is bad to have a servant, but worse to have a master.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false, in the last analysis they rest on force.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.