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Divine Right Quotes

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All that is mine by Divine Right is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.
Florence Scovel Shinn

My entire birthright, bestowed from above, is now delivered to me in tremendous abundance, under benevolent guidance and with divinely orchestrated serendipity.
Authors on Divine Right Quotes: Ursula K. Le Guin Florence Scovel Shinn Louise Hay Stuart Wilde George Osborne John Adams Walter Reuther Gilbert K. Chesterton C. Wright Mills Harold MacMillan King James I William Henry Harrison Leonardo DiCaprio Dar Williams Marianne Williamson Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley James Otis Bill Moyers Frank Rich Matilda Joslyn Gage Sam Ervin Herbert Spencer Ambrose Bierce Leo Tolstoy Joe Carter W. E. B. Du Bois
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Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.
Florence Scovel Shinn

'Unlimited Being, clear the path for my boundless wealth. I am an unassailable draw for all that is rightfully mine by Divine Authority.'
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It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.
W. E. B. Du Bois

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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, but even by God himself they are called Gods.
King James I

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We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
Ursula K. Le Guin

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There is no separation in Divine Mind, therefore, I cannot be separated from the love and companionship which are mine by divine right.
Florence Scovel Shinn

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Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.
Ursula K. Le Guin

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The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison

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Management has no divine rights.
Walter Reuther

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
Ursula K. Le Guin

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Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.
Matilda Joslyn Gage

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Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?
Sam Ervin

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You have a divine right to choose whom you will play with and under what circumstances. By eliminating any energy drag, the positive good things in your life will resonate faster and faster.
Stuart Wilde

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Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right. This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
Bill Moyers

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Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings
Ursula K. Le Guin

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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
Harold MacMillan

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Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
Ambrose Bierce

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Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.
C. Wright Mills

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I am forced to get my living by the labour of my hand; and the sweat of my brow... for bitter bread, earned under the frowns of some who have no natural or divine right to be above me, and entirely owe their grandeur and honor to grinding the faces of the poor.
James Otis

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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Herbert Spencer

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You have a divine right to abundance, and if you are anything less than a millionaire, you haven't had your fair share.
Stuart Wilde

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When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.
Leonardo DiCaprio

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In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states.
Leo Tolstoy

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I accept perfect health as the natural state of my being. I now consciously release any mental patterns within me that could express as dis-ease in any way. Perfect health is my Divine right, and I claim it now.
Louise Hay

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Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order...perfection, prosperity and peace.
Marianne Williamson

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I am totally free to choose thoughts of joy. It is my Divine right to do so.
Louise Hay

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Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
George Osborne

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The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."
John Adams

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Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.
Dar Williams

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The actor doesn't merely command the stage, he seems to own it by divine right.
Frank Rich

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We need some remedial training on how to live as subjects in a kingdom. We may be justified in rejecting the divine right of kings to rule but we cannot be justified if we reject the rule of our divine king.
Joe Carter