Quotes by Pope Gregory VII

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. >>

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the >>

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignor >>

Quotations about Kings

The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are >>

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. >>

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get upp >>

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

Pope Gregory VII