"The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself."

-- Jonathan Mayhew

#Kings Quotes #Yield Quotes #Rights Quotes

“You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it?”
“My first MFA was in poetry, and it was very much part of a professional trajectory leading to life as a professor. But in my second and third years at Harvard, I realized I didn't want an academic life.”
“But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!”
“I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been told you're supposed to do.”
“I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.”

Source : "Q&A: Jean Paul Gaultier". Interview with Eric Wilson, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. October 26, 2007.
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”
“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is”
“Success isn't about how much money you make. It's about the difference you make in people's lives.”

Source : Michelle Obama's Speech speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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