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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.


Raoul Vaneigem


#citizen #consumption #democratic #equality #fraternity

Entomologist Dr. Ovid Byron speaking to television journalist, Tina, who says, re. global warming, "Scientists of course are in disagreement about whether this is happening and whether humans have a role." He replies: "The Arctic is genuinely collapsing. Scientists used to call these things the canary in the mine. What they say now is, The canary is dead. We are at the top of Niagara Falls, Tina, in a canoe. There is an image for your viewers. We got here by drifting, but we cannot turn around for a lazy paddle back when you finally stop pissing around. We have arrived at the point of an audible roar. Does it strike you as a good time to debate the existence of the falls?" p.367


Barbara Kingsolver


#climate-crisis #monarch-butterflies #change

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.


Elizabeth I Tudor


#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.


Mason Cooley


#enlightened #maiden #monarch #obsolete #repertory

Mr. Pritchard! What are you doing? Is that O-soto-gari? No! It is not! It is a yak mating with a tractor! That is really very very not very good! My grandfather is weeping in Heaven, or he would if there were such a place, which there is not because religion is a mystification contrived by monarchists! Again! Again, and this time do it properly!


Nick Harkaway


#heaven #monarchy #religion #faith

Your king is SUPPOSED to explode? What kind of government system is that?


Jefferson Smith


#government #humor #humour #kings #monarchy

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.


Thomas Paine


#government #monarchy #wit #nature

The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.


King Abdullah II


#hand #i #inherited #monarchy #over

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.


Johann Hari


#britain #elizabeth-ii #monarchy #monarchy-of-the-uk #postage-stamps

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.


Prince Charles


#account #after #attitudes #curious #monarchy






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