Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of… — Idi Amin Copy Share Image
As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast… — James Theodore Bent Copy Share Image
Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV -… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If you're the King of Jordan, if you're a part of the royal family in Saudi Arabia and he's made this deal… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump's hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts… — Chuck Todd 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
Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies… — Herbert W. Armstrong Copy Share Image
We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to… — Coolio 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
My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break… — Timothy Leary 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
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Both the Eurozone and European Union is like the end of the Roman Empire. It's already started. In a few years' time… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they… — David Korten Copy Share Image
People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire… — Susan Jacoby 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
The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize… — James Risen 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
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely… — John Knox Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image