{"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":"Good people won’t do bad to you if you hurt them. They’ll just be neutral and walk away, with experience and a lesson; and you’ll be left with well-wishers less one.","author":"Vikrmn","tags":["ca-vikram-verma","chartered-accountant","experience","good-people","guru-with-guitar","gwg","hurt","motivational","neutral","people","tpr","tune-play-repeat","vikram","vikram-verma","vikrmn","wal-away","well-wisher"],"id":14958,"author_id":"Vikrmn"},{"text":"You are not white,but a rainbow of colors.You are not black,but golden.You are not just a nationality,but a citizen of the world.You are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["africa","attitude","black","citizen","citizen-of-the-world","colors","conscious-human","ethnicity","fair","flawed","flaws","global-citizen","god","gold","golden","goodphilosophy","human","humanism","humanity","humankind","integrity","just","justice","knowledge","left","life","life-poem","lion-of-god","love","magnificent","mankind","mindfulness","mindset","morales","morality","morals","nation","nationalism","neutral","otherness","peace","perfection","perspective","poem","poetry","political-party","poor","races","racism","rainbow","reflection-of-god","revolution","rich","right","spiritual","values","view","wealth","wealthy","white","wisdom","world","world-citizen","world-poetry","wrong"],"id":96870,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"This isn't the work of our people, Delilah. It's a corruption of power. The gods are neutral, good and evil manifests in the deeds of mortals.''Or, just maybe-- The power is our own and the credit horribly misplaced.","author":"Kurtis J. Wiebe","tags":["corrupt","corruption","deeds","evil","evil-deeds","god","gods","good","good-and-evil","good-deeds","good-v-evil","good-versus-evil","good-vs-evil","manifest","manifestation","mortal","mortals","neutral","power","religion","spirituality"],"id":141399,"author_id":"Kurtis+J.+Wiebe"},{"text":"Becoming thoughtless does not mean, non-existence of thought. It simply means reaching out to the absolute state of the consciousness which is free of thinking. All of us need a thought to allow universal consciousness to express itself through finite medium – but in the end – the expression itself is infinite, whether visible or invisible.","author":"Drunken Mystic","tags":["consciousness","infinite","neutral","neutrality","soul","spiritual","universal-mind"],"id":146841,"author_id":"Drunken+Mystic"},{"text":"I don't represent anyone's opinion. Not even my own. I'm neutral.","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["aphorisms","neutral","neutrality","opinion"],"id":237015,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace, truth, and justice for all. I may not be a fan of religion, but I am a big fan of God. I choose not to subscribe to any one religion because I recognize truths in them all — both the truths and flaws. For anybody to believe that any father would want to see his children fighting is madness. It does not make the Creator happy to see anybody massacre any of his beautiful creations. If you must know the religion I choose, I choose LOVE. If you must know the name of my god, his name is Truth, or rather 'He Who is One, The One Who is All.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["beautiful","beauty","children","creations","creator","enlightened","father","fighting","god","happy","human","humanism","humanity","justice","knowledge","life","love","madness","mankind","neutral","pacifist","peace","philosopher","philosophy","poet","religion","religion-and-philosophy","religious","truth","truths","wisdom","writer"],"id":238717,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Neutral men are the devil's allies.","author":"Edwin Hubbel Chapin","tags":["devil","neutral","allies "],"id":311972,"author_id":"Edwin+Hubbel+Chapin"},{"text":"The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was another of Cody’s metaphors for it; I’d said the sensation felt like an unbalanced washing machine filled with a hundred epileptic chimpanzees. Pretty proud of that one.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["buzzing","car","chimpanzees","cody","machine","metaphor","muscle","neutral","proud","washing"],"id":343081,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["aim","aims","dream","dreams","empty","energetic","energy","enthusiasm","enthusiastic","excite","excitement","exciting","goal","goals","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","mind","minds","motivation","motivational","motivational","neutral","neutrality","old-age","old-aged","philosophy","regret","regretful","regrets","target","targets","wisdom","wisdom","work","working","youth","youth-age","youthful","youthfulness"],"id":429679,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}