Martyn Rady > Quotes

“A [Don Carlos] gyógyítására tett kísérletek kudarcot vallottak, még az sem segített rajta, amikor egy mumifikált szenttel kellett megosztania az ágyát...”
― Martyn Rady, The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

“A Habsburg nők elsődleges funkciója a fiú örökösök előállítása volt. Előnyt jelentett, ha valaki szép, a korabeli nézet szerint ugyanis a méhnek gyakori benedvesítésre volt szüksége ahhoz, hogy ne zsugorodjon össze.”
― Martyn Rady, The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

“Németalföld kormányzójaként Margit bajuszt viselt, hogy az nagyobb tekintélyt kölcsönözzön személyének.”
― Martyn Rady, The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

“The Hungarian prime minister put it bluntly in 1908: 'We have only one single categorical imperative, the Hungarian state idea, and we demand that every citizen should acknowledge it and subject himself unconditionally to it. . . . The Hungarians conquered this country for the Hungarians and not for others. The supremacy and hegemony of the Hungarians is fully justified.' The rector of Budapest University put it even more boldly: the purpose of Magyarization was assimilation, and 'we shall just keep on at it until there is not a Slovak left.”
― Martyn Rady, The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

“Cameralists frequently advocated what amounted to ‘a programme of total regulation’. Their regulations drilled deep, laying down the types of crop and trees to be cultivated, where bridges and hospitals should be built, what people should eat to keep them nourished, and so on.”
― Martyn Rady, The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

“The Orthodox religion emerged out of the Byzantine Empire, whose rulers governed with an almost unlimited power as both the servant and image of God. Orthodoxy embraced this ideal, emphasizing in its rituals and ceremony the authority of the monarch, whose power came directly from God.”
― Martyn Rady, The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

“Over more than nine centuries the Habsburgs produced simpletons and visionaries, dabblers in magic and freemasonry, fanatics in religion, rulers committed to the welfare of their peoples, patrons of art and champions of science, and builders of great palaces and churches. Some Habsburgs were dedicated to peace, while others embarked on fruitless wars. Even so, as the politics of Central Europe continues to sour, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Hungarian historian [Domokos Kosáry] was a right after all -- a Habsburg [like Otto von Habsburg in 1990] would have done no worse.”
― Martyn Rady, The Habsburgs: To Rule the World