Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas. — Sydney Samuelson 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
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
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
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
It's clear that when we're this outnumbered by the creatures, we have to take a page from the British Empire and rule… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In fact, when the fires of empire get hidden, they still stay burning underneath the moss, seething away. This is true with… — Robert Wyatt 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
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
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
But Hale didn't follow. For a second he just stood and stared out over his empire. It was like he was lost… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of… — George Orwell 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
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
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'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
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
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
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
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
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
Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us,… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
“But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
My life in Greece influenced what I am. My father was in the left because he was against the king and his… — Costa-Gavras Copy Share Image
I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
![“I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and will use money to get votes. If you look at inflation under the Roman Empire, with absolute rulers, they had much greater inflation, so we don't set the…” quote by Charlie Munger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d6/charlie-munger-458_absolutes_i-think-democracies-are-prone-to-inflati_1006251.jpg)
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