“God save our gracious king!
Long live our noble king!
God save the king!”
Henry Carey (1687–1743) English composer and playwright
"God Save the King" (1730).
“God save the King!”
Statement in Antwerp, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison, p. 34
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J. C. Squire (1884–1958) British poet, writer, historian, and literary editor
On the outbreak of the First World War, from Epigrams (1916).
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 96
“It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.”
Terry Pratchett book The Shepherd's Crown
Source: The Shepherd's Crown
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917–2008) Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
Quoted from Larry King Weekend, Interview With Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (2002-05-12) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/12/lklw.00.html
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: We do not struggle for ourselves, nor for our race, not even for humanity.
We do not struggle for Earth, nor for ideas. All these are the precious yet provisional stairs of our ascending God, and they crumble away as soon as he steps upon them in his ascent.
In the smallest lightning flash of our lives, we feel all of God treading upon us, and suddenly we understand: if we all desire it intensely, if we organize all the visible and invisible powers of earth and fling them upward, if we all battle together like fellow combatants eternally vigilant — then the Universe might possibly be saved.
It is not God who will save us — it is we who will save God, by battling, by creating, and by transmuting matter into spirit.
“The king dead is a living god.”
Julian Jaynes book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Book I, Chapter 6, p. 143 ( See also: Rene Girard, and James George Frazer)
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
“Kings are not elected. Gods are not elected.”
Cleopatra VII (-69–-30 BC) last active pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
Cleopatra as portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor, in Cleopatra (1963)
Misattributed
Alexandre Dumas book Twenty Years After
Vingt ans après (Twenty Years After) (1845)
Context: Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.
