The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually… — Baron de Montesquieu 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
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species.… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy… — Crispin Glover Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Marmite - like that other little black-jar job, Bovril - is so much a Mark 1 staple-of-Empire brand, so much part of… — Peter York Copy Share Image
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I started with the book 'Boardwalk Empire' and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
We do not seek the unanimity that comes to those who water down all issues to the lowest common denominator - or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image