Human rights Quote by Barista Uno

Greek shipowners like to boast, 'I bought ships at the bottom of the market, and now they're worth ten times as much.' It goes…

— Stelios Haji-Ioannou

That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary…

— Richard Hough

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

— E. B. White

“There are not many other such places where the maritime element of our national strength cannot be applied, but where this is true, where…

— J.C. Wylie

“Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their conduct. Some of the vaunted knights of…

— The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only…

— John Henrik Clarke

The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of…

— Thucydides

It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South China Sea than by defying the U.S. Pacific…

— David Ignatius

Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of…

— Peter Padfield

[Somali maritime violence] is a response to greedy Western nations, who invade and exploit Somalia's water resources illegally. It is not a piracy, it…

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part, the number…

— Richard Hough

“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy”

— Ben Bryant