Absolute Monarchies

Famous quotes containing the words absolute and/or monarchies:

    “The absolute has moved into the fortress of the absurd.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “If our vaunted “rule of the people” does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done—it must and will inevitably give place to something better.”
    —Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)