When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Old systems do not fold willingly, particularly when they control gargantuan amounts of wealth and power. But like empires of old -… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from… — Edward Gibbon 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The… — Winston Churchill 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
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image