No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.
A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.
The master's irresponsible power has no such bound.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.