Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The idea of elegance and aristocratic indulgence of an ocean cruise was born out of the image of the rich men and… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“Richard Francis Burton was a British consul, Orientalist, explorer, best known today for translating the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra into… — Michael Rank Copy Share Image
Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“England acted to maintain the “Pax Britannica” in British colonies, and global stability in British areas of influence. Under the leadership of… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Forbes did, in fact, break new ground for women...She was an irrepressible and independent traveler who took risky and difficult trips, braved… — Margaret Bald Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen,… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. George Washington, took on the British Empire. Neil Armstrong… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Even the building of a second British empire in the 19th century never fully healed the wound of losing America, and the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“I know it is said in missionary meetings that we conquered India to raise the level of the Indians. That is cant.… — William Joynson-Hicks Copy Share Image
When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“After the British victory against Napoleon, Britain was indisputably the leading global power. The British Empire expanded significantly toward Asia, driven by… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Some Americans are under the grossly mistaken impression that because we violently and triumphantly unyoked ourselves from the British Empire oh so… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“If you steal from the thieves, can they call the cops! If you heist from the blackmarket, is it really a crime!… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“He hadn’t finished: ‘Let us bring down our righteous anger against the festering scum who by their cowardice and sloth have reduced… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“the British Empire now stood at the very apex of modern civilization, and that it was the special burden of this empire… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
But while the British empire is easy to write about, it is very difficult to summarise. This is because what we call… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth;… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
“Thus the British Empire came into existence; and thus - for there is no stopping damp; it gets into the inkpot as… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
![“[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.’ I cannot presume to write on behalf of…” quote by Shashi Tharoor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/01a/shashi-tharoor-2698_british-empire_w-hen-we-kill-people-a-british-sea-capta_1208063.jpg)
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