Empires Quotes - Page 35

• We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts all of us in jeopardy. The American Empire, while it was just wreaking havoc on other nations, didn't bother us.

  Howard Zinn

  United States, World, Want

  "Interview with Howard Zinn: A People’s History of the United States". Interview with Sean Carswell and Todd Taylor, razorcake.org. December 6, 2011.

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• People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism. New Zealand is not worried about terrorism. Holland is not worried about terrorism. Why not be a modest little country without all of these enormous ambitions?

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Ambition, People

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• The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Division, Four

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wine, Power, Race

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack her.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• When Turkey began approaching the EU, I wasn't the only one who worried that the dark stain in Turkey's history - or rather the history of the Ottoman Empire - could become a problem one day. In other words, what happened to the Armenians in World War I. That's why I couldn't leave the issue untouched.

  Orhan Pamuk

  War, Dark, Turkeys

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• All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is insecure because the nation's identity is not secure. The nation doesn't provide the third world writer with a secure identity, because the nation is colonized, it's oppressed, it's part of somebody else's empire.

  Mark McMorris

  Insecure, Identity, World Literature

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• My life in Greece influenced what I am. My father was in the left because he was against the king and his family, who had created a war against the Turks at the beginning of the last century to revive the Byzantine Empire. For three years, there was fighting, and all my father's friends died. So he hated the royal family.

  Costa-Gavras

  Kings, Father, War

  Source: progressive.org

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• The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism and voluntarily dissolved its empires leaving behind a very positive legacy of institutions not to mention buildings and roadways.

  Ibn Warraq

  New York, Believe, Other Cultures

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

  E-40

  Rap, Independent, Careers

  "GO DER Exclusive; the Ambassador of the Bay Himself E 40 #GODER". GO DER Interview, godermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who serves the empire - a Jesus painfully divorced from his ministry of justice.

  Allan Boesak

  Jesus, Justice, May

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• I'm 33 and in my "Jesus year," and I want it all right now. I want a perfect body. I want to have a perfect love affair. I want every member of my family to be healthy and happy. And I want the world to save itself and for America to realize that it has to give up its idea of being an empire. Wait until I hit 40; then it'll all come crumbling down.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Jesus, Giving Up, Years

  "Rufus Wainwright: Baroque Pop Idol". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. May 14, 2007.

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• We fought for freedom together. We had no government, no weapons to help us. We defeated such a big empire without any government, without any arms.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Government, Together

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• For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire.

  Robert James Waller

  Karma, Moving, Clothes

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• I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.

  H. G. Wells

  Running, Animal, Men

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. Wells The Dover Reader”, p.192, Courier Dover Publications

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• Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Leadership, Courage, Son

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• Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

  Marvin Kalb

  Russia, Ukraine

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't know what happens in the next years. But I cannot now design a policy in which we try to keep China from developing, because in some years, if they develop, they might be rich enough to challenge us, and adopt the principle that we will hold down any state that might in the future become strong. That would make us a world empire for which we wouldn't have the talents or the convictions.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Years, Design

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.

  Nicholson Baker

  Country, Government, Europe

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke" by James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I say one evil empire down...one to go.

  Michael Moore

  Evil, Liberty, Politics

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• To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

  Adam Smith

  Government, Sight, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 7 (1776). Other quotation compilations have this ending with "whose government is influenced by shopkeepers," but the first edition reads as above. See Napoleon 5; Josiah Tucker 1

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• Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

  Edward Young

  Time, Roots, Scythes

  Edward Young (1768). “The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job..”, p.7

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• I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.

  William Ellery Channing

  Mind, Doe, Tools

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• It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions of right and wrong, virtue and vice.

  John Adams

  Horse, Kings, Freedom

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.546

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• I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their empire were but a bubble in comparison to the Jews. They have given religion to three-quarters of the globe and have influenced the affairs of mankind more and more happily than any other nation, ancient or modern.

  John Adams

  Atheist, Believe, Fate

  Letter to F. A. Van der Kemp, February 16, 1808.

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