The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British… — Peter Greenaway 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
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills,… — Josh Tickell Copy Share Image
I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people… — J. B. Smoove Copy Share Image
Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age, and to adopt as a practical maxim for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
When I met Jay-Z and Beyonce I was in awe, stuttering like crazy. This guy grew up in the projects and he… — Frances Tiafoe Copy Share Image
We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget… — Chittaranjan Das Copy Share Image
Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several… — Plato Copy Share Image
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The idea of defending, as integral parts of our Empire, countries 10,000 miles off, like Australia, which neither pay a shilling to… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm struck by how impressively John Elliott assimilated new work on early modern England and colonial America, as well as keeping abreast… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
If you can reach just 10 percent of the population, you can begin to reach a tipping point; that's where true social… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Christianity began with 120 in the Upper Room, within three centuries it had become the predominant religion of the Roman Empire. What… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
Behind him the Master of Ceremonies cleared his throat. His eyes took on a distant, glazed look.The Stealer of Souls, he said… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should… — Josephus Copy Share Image
When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see… — Immortal Technique 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
Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade… — Robert E. Howard 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
![“President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our freedom, to our economy, and what we have now is a gigantic taxpayer draining empire that is devouring itself, which, as you say, it's creating more…” quote by Ralph Nader](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ec/ralph-nader-1783_complexes_president-dwight-eisenhower-warned-us-fi_2132041.png)
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