Quotes & Sayings About Enlightened Despots

At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads. — William Cronon

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others. — Hassan Nasrallah

Even enlightened despots don't make very good teachers. — Marilyn Wallace

We have two eyes... two hands... two legs... but we can focus on one!??!?

Naah, lie double and triple... I can focus on 2 and do 3... — Deyth Banger

Happiness Is Dependent Upon Choosing To Function Within The Laws And Principles Of Kingdom Of God — Sunday Adelaja

A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask ourselves and each other to be more than just good, and better than just strong. And a good life, a meaningful life, a life in which we can enjoy the world and live with purpose, can only be built if we do more than live for ourselves. — Eric Greitens

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or installing their sons after them. — Elliott Abrams

Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell. — Northrop Frye

It is said that the things that annoy us the most are the things that we are probably called to resolve. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute. — Noam Chomsky

Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?"
"Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out. — J.K. Rowling