Quotes of: American-empire Keyword

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

Michael Mandelbaum

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A word to the wise an't nesisary its the stupid ones who need the edvise.

The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution

Jim: Are you with the American Fleet? Frank: American Fleet! Looks like you lost your shirt kid.

Empire of the Sun

In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it.

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Aku berasal dari budaya yang mengaku menghormati hak asasi manusia, tapi menikmati materialisme yang dibangun atas dasar eksploitasi buruh di negara lain. Aku hidup dalam sebuah bangsa yang populasinya berjumlah 5 persen dari penduduk dunia, tapi men...

The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals & the Truth about Global Corruption

In response to my question about how we might rein in the empire, he said, "That's why I'm meeting with you. Only you in the United States can change it. Your government created this problem and your people must solve it. You've got to insist that Wa...

The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals & the Truth about Global Corruption

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

Robert Kiyosaki

Jim: [during an American airstrike] P-51! Cadillac of the sky!

Empire of the Sun

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.

Tom Wolfe

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exception...

James Hillman

Africa occupied a relatively blank space in the minds of most Americans, and when they stopped to think about it, aided by old and deeply ingrained habits of press coverage, all they could imagine was volcano, occupation, disease, and horror.

China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Voltaire

Americans made beautiful, principled speeches and imposed countless conditions on all manner of things. But in the end, in Africa they seemed to move the ball very slowly. They regarded Africa not as a terrain of opportunity, or even as a morally com...

China's Second Continent: How a Million Migrants Are Building a New Empire in Africa

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countr...

Doris Lessing

Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.

Nicolas Maduro

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

Justin Sane

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

Hugo Chavez

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

Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.

Oliver Ellsworth