Patrick Stewart Quotes

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

A people may let a king fall and still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

No one is king by his own power.

If a great multitude of men should call one of their number King, unless this instituted Prince, appear in greater visible splendor then others, can reward those that obey and please him, and do the contrary to others; his Institution signifies little, even although he chance to have greater corporal or mental faculties, than any other of the number

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

Power goes to two poles: to those who've got money and those who've got people.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

At one time kings were anointed by Deity, so the problem was to see to it that Deity chose the right candidate. In this age the myth is "the will of the people" ... but the problem changes only superficially.

A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.

One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in every society; only let us have the real instead of the titular. In every society some are born to rule, and some to advise. The chief is the chief all the world over, only not his cap and plume. It is only this dislike of the pretender which makes men sometimes unjust to the true and finished man.

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

The establishment uses that rationale all the time, and that's why we do what we do. But leadership requires some understanding that you can say no. People have base instincts, but the transcendent also appeal to them.

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.

But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where does it come from?" "From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.

People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced by doctrines of righteousness.

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.