It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. — Anonymous 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
With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
