I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
What I am trying to figure out in my preface is how Romans could operate without the simple items - maps -… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand. — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
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
The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas,… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides… — Romano Guardini Copy Share Image
Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the… — William Golding 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
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet… — Curtis White 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
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those… — Jean Baudrillard 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
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country,… — Kenny Everett Copy Share Image
And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the… — Nouriel Roubini 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
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake. — Lord Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
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