Quotes of: Feudalism Keyword

I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

My Feudal Lord

It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

My mind became a sanctuary for secret thoughts of escaping from this household.

My Feudal Lord

I found an inner strength to fight for myself. It was clear that nobody else would.

My Feudal Lord

Her only weapons were her tears.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.

Emily Greene Balch

There will be a great imbalance in our strengths if we fight, because I am prepared to die and you are desperate to live.

My Feudal Lord

Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit

Looking back, I realized that we were being raised to be schizophrenic; an appearance of perfection was more important than genuine feelings

My Feudal Lord

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

I think that the thematic, formal history of the literary form ultimately harkens back to a different political system. That is to say, a feudal order: the aristocratic dispensation of leisure time, the refinements of the self. With the shift from fe...

Ayad Akhtar

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

Brian Cox

The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.

Lawrence Lessig

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

Barbara Amiel

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice.

Rupert Friend

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

Heather Brooke

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object—the joy of living—is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up. There are valleys, cliffs, streams, precipices, and slides, and as he walks t...

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.

Mark Leibovich