Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war… — John Amery Copy Share Image
The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the… — John Gorrie Copy Share Image
That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
America's entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who don't like to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
Kaytoo [from the Star Wars] is more even-keeled. And he's a badass. He comes from the Empire, and he's a security droid.… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler,… — Doris Lessing 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
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand,… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of… — Claude Levi-Strauss 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
The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline… — Tom Winnifrith 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
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British… — Philip French Copy Share Image
Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
How do things, whether they are movies, or plays, Hamilton, or people, ideas - how do they become transformative or iconic? That… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp… — Tacitus 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
“I stamp out vast empires. I crush palaces in my rigid hands. I harden my heart against churches. I blot out cemetaries.… — Harry Crosby Copy Share Image