When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires. — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity… — Sadao Araki Copy Share Image
Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
The many woes that afflict out nation are rooted in the morally bankrupt paradigms of socialism, interventionism, and empire that have held… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich;… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I’m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I’ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him… — John Owen Copy Share Image
I don't know what happens in the next years. But I cannot now design a policy in which we try to keep… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do. — Kesha Copy Share Image
Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone.… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour. — L. Jon Wertheim Copy Share Image
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not… — Franz Halder Copy Share Image
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