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Empire Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.
- The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities, and…
- We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and…
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- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry
- I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it. — Victoria Beckham
- The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art… — William Blake
- The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan
- When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? — Julie Burchill
- Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke
- America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to… — George W. Bush
- To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler
- The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who… — Benjamin Carson
- I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. — Hugo Chavez
- I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without… — Hugo Chavez