Wings in the Night”) that has regrettably achieved some popularity on neo-Nazi websites runs: “The ancient empires fall, the dark-skinned peoples fade… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, Steve Jobs came to the music industry and pitched them the idea and they kept shootin' him down and shootin'… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire. — Chalmers Johnson Copy Share Image
There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role… — Dean Acheson 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
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire,… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment. — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
This is an age of science. ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an… — Wickliffe Rose Copy Share Image
Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should… — Josephus Copy Share Image
