Quotes of: American-empire Keyword

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the ...

The Life of Poetry

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off ...

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

When the paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are hig...

The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies and the Reagan Era

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to (1794)]

On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters

Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony ...

Mario Testino

For too long now divinity and destiny have legitimized what reason and compassion would not. An individual for a family, a family for the kingdom, a kingdom for an empire... And now – an empire for humanity. – Govinda Shauri

Kurukshetra

The roots of our statehood go back more than two millennia and two centuries to the origins of the Hun Empire. Building upon the legacies and power of the Huns, Mongols had built the largest land empire in the history of the mankind.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before t...

Dave Rowntree

Princess Leia: Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf herder. Han Solo: Who's scruffy-looking?

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Yoda: [to Luke] How do you get so big eating food of this kind?

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Han Solo: [C3P0 won't stop complaining] Either shut him up or shut him down!

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[Wedge and Janson succeeds in bring down an Imperial Walker] Wedge Antilles: Whoa! That got him!

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Princess Leia: Some day you're gonna be wrong, I just hope I'm there to see it.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Lando: [greeting "old friend" Han Solo] Why, you slimy, double-crossing, no-good swindler.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[Amid the violence of colliding asteroids] Princess Leia: [to Han Solo] You don't have to do this to impress me.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[Leia and Han prepares to escape in the Falcon] Princess Leia: This bucket of bolts's never gonna get us past that blockade.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[C-3PO is broken almost beyond repair] Lando: Having trouble with your droid? Han Solo: No, no problem. Why?

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Darth Vader: [in 1997 Special Edition only] Alert my Star Destroyer to prepare for my arrival.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

C-3PO: [about Lando] : Well, he seems very friendly. Princess Leia: Yes, very friendly...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a d...

Cecil Rhodes