“ I "love" reading.It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative re… Moffat Machingura
“ Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions rassool jibraeel snyman
“ How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible for… Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“ When avarice takes the lead in a state, it is commonly the forerunner of its fall. Alexander Hamilton
“ Government as we now know it in the USA and other economically advanced countries is so manifestly horrifying, so corrupt, counterproductive, and outright vicious, that one might well wonder how it co… Robert Higgs
“ Some women born to raise a beautiful families while some women are born to build an empire from ashes and rule the rest. Pradeepa Pandiyan
“ Mumbai is the sweet, sweaty smell of hope, which is the opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love. It's the smell of Gods, demons, empires, and civiliz… Gregory David Roberts
“ The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. William Blake
“ It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a… Arundhati Roy
“ Don’t touch me. Don’t tell me how beautiful my eyes are, how soft my hair is, how you love to hear my voice. Don’t. Don’t pretend you are falling in love with me. I know you are lying, and every word… Melissa de la Cruz
“ Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful con… Lyndon B. Johnson
“ Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was the ruler o… M.H. Hyndman
“ That's how tyranny succeeds. When folks think it won't affect them until eventually it does. Karen Traviss
“ In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government… John Boyd Orr
“ To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. Tacitus
“ This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the most learned and cultured poets, authors… Indu Sundaresan
“ Stay up building your empire if you must, cut all negative ties if you must, sacrifice some things if you must, but above all, never forget the reason why you wanted to be successful. Kabelo Mabona
