Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich;… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve… — Glenn Greenwald 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
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image