In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman. — Mos Def Copy Share Image
We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us – rather than resorting to such labels as ‘evil empire’, ‘fundamentalist’… — Caroline Finkel Copy Share Image
Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don't think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
But worse things were about to be found in the bedroom: on the jeweller’s wife’s ottoman, in a casual pose, sprawled a… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
In April, 1915, the Ottoman Government began to put into execution throughout Turkey a systematic and carefully-prepared plan to exterminate the Armenian… — Herbert Adams Gibbons Copy Share Image
When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His… — Lord Byron 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
From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders… — Herbert Adams Gibbons Copy Share Image
An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein - and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned… — David Frum Copy Share Image
The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“But why should 1299 CE be considered the founding date of the empire? – there were no famous battles, no declarations of… — Caroline Finkel Copy Share Image
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“Hasan Pasha also gave the green light for Turks and Greeks to take whatever action they pleased against any Albanians they found:… — Mark Mazower Copy Share Image
If clothes look like a couch or an ottoman or a love seat, you just wanna stay away from it. — Santino Rice Copy Share Image
Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and… — Adam Schiff Copy Share Image
The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again -… — Hisham Melhem Copy Share Image
Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
