{"quotes":[{"text":"The advantages of a hereditary Monarchy are self-evident. Without some such method of prescriptive, immediate and automatic succession, an interregnum intervenes, rival claimants arise, continuity is interrupted and the magic lost. Even when Parliament had secured control of taxation and therefore of government; even when the menace of dynastic conflicts had receded in to the coloured past; even when kingship had ceased to be transcendental and had become one of many alternative institutional forms; the principle of hereditary Monarchy continued to furnish the State with certain specific and inimitable advantages.Apart from the imponderable, but deeply important, sentiments and affections which congregate around an ancient and legitimate Royal Family, a hereditary Monarch acquires sovereignty by processes which are wholly different from those by which a dictator seizes, or a President is granted, the headship of the State. The King personifies both the past history and the present identity of the Nation as a whole. Consecrated as he is to the service of his peoples, he possesses a religious sanction and is regarded as someone set apart from ordinary mortals. In an epoch of change, he remains the symbol of continuity; in a phase of disintegration, the element of cohesion; in times of mutability, the emblem of permanence. Governments come and go, politicians rise and fall: the Crown is always there. A legitimate Monarch moreover has no need to justify his existence, since he is there by natural right. He is not impelled as usurpers and dictators are impelled, either to mesmerise his people by a succession of dramatic triumphs, or to secure their acquiescence by internal terrorism or by the invention of external dangers. The appeal of hereditary Monarchy is to stability rather than to change, to continuity rather than to experiment, to custom rather than to novelty, to safety rather than to adventure.The Monarch, above all, is neutral. Whatever may be his personal prejudices or affections, he is bound to remain detached from all political parties and to preserve in his own person the equilibrium of the realm. An elected President – whether, as under some constitutions, he be no more than a representative functionary, or whether, as under other constitutions, he be the chief executive – can never inspire the same sense of absolute neutrality. However impartial he may strive to become, he must always remain the prisoner of his own partisan past; he is accompanied by friends and supporters whom he may seek to reward, or faced by former antagonists who will regard him with distrust. He cannot, to an equal extent, serve as the fly-wheel of the State.","author":"Harold Nicholson","tags":["british","constitution","continuity","dictator","elect","government","hereditary","identity","institution","king","legitimate","monarch","neutral","partisan","political","politician","president","queen","royal-family","service","sovereign","state","succession","terrorism"],"id":5646,"author_id":"Harold+Nicholson"},{"text":"With or without 'college' we are able to use our senses by perceiving the world around us, that in turn shapes and creates ones own reality. Perception is reality. My 'reality' is not the same as your 'reality' since we all have a different mental database, life experience, physiology, different characteristics, environments we grew up and people we hang out with, etc. I might fall in love with a certain smell while it triggers bad memories for someone else. Same goes for the other senses while perceiving 'reality'. And how real is this so called 'reality' anyway? Our senses can be quite limited compared to a camera or other living creatures on the planet. There are sounds and colours humans can not detect with their senses. We in fact do not perceive the whole 'picture'. The most important things in life are unseen. My point is that we do not need hierarchic, indoctrinating, and capitalized institution called 'science' to tell us what, when, why, and how to think, experiment, sense, and live our lives. Long before there was any 'science', there was sense first.","author":"Nadja Sam","tags":["education","education-system","freedom-of-thought","institution","life","perception","perception-of-reality","reality","science","scientism","senses"],"id":7378,"author_id":"Nadja+Sam"},{"text":"Whose little boy are you?","author":"James Baldwin","tags":["african-american","black","church","coming-of-age","epiphany","god","harlem","institution","james-baldwin","racism","religion","renaissance","youth"],"id":8823,"author_id":"James+Baldwin"},{"text":"Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.","author":"Kary Mullis","tags":["art","growth","institution","law","mankind","nobel-laureate","science"],"id":18430,"author_id":"Kary+Mullis"},{"text":"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["become","bribesto","children","get","grafts","has","higher","institution","nigerian","since","thing","when"],"id":30019,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"You can become a politician and improve the institutions of power in your country.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","country","institution","politician","power"],"id":35470,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Most women would each be left with fewer dreams or without a dream, if the institution of marriage were to be abolished.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abolish","abolishment","aphorism","aphorisms","aspiration","aspirations","aspire","boyfriend","boyfriends","couple","couples","divorce","divorced","divorcee","divorces","dream","dreamer","dreamers","dreams","girlfriend","girlfriends","goal","goals","humor","humour","institution","institutions","love","man","marriage","marriages","married","marry","men","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","relationship-goal","relationship-goals","satire","vow","vows","wedding","wedding-vows","weddings","woman","women"],"id":49683,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["become","church","created","fight","has","ignorance","institution","proponent","society","unfortunately"],"id":66058,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"In every civilized society, there is an established institution put in place to design laws that make people live civilized and having rights and privileges as citizens of that nation.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["citizens","civilisation","civilized-society","danger","darkness","destruction","god","ignorance","institution","knowledge","laws","life","light","mountain","nation","people","power","privileges","rights","society"],"id":73754,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Change is an institution that we all have to get enrolled into if we are really willing to make a difference! Those who are illiterates to change agree that whatever will be will be! That does not sound well!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["attend-school","change","change-the-world","enroll","enrollment","food-for-thought","illiterates","institution","israelmore-ayivor","make-a-change","make-a-difference","world-changer"],"id":102093,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}