Adrian Goldsworthy Quotes
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.Adrian Goldsworthy
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
Barbra Streisand -
Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.
Kate Williams -
We do not need the empire to give us anything.
Fidel Castro -
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.
Han Suyin -
If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
Bill Vaughan -
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
Bruce Sterling -
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
Henry Ward Beecher -
An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity.
Mahatma Gandhi -
With you I anticipate the important share which the colonies must soon have in regulating the political balance. They are striding fast to independence, and ere long will build an empire upon the ruins of Great Britain, will adopt its constitution purged of its impurities, and from an experience of its defects will guard against those evils which have wasted its vigor and brought it to an untimely end.
William Hooper -
In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort of hard to believe because, until you get good at it, knitting seems to cause those ailments. The twitch above my right eye will disappear with knitting practice.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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The American empire should be destroyed.
Aleksandr Dugin -
Nineteenth century American educator Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.
Dana Goldstein -
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
Stephen Ambrose -
At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.
Ari Shavit -
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
David Goodstein -
I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.
David Titley
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Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.
Nelson Algren -
As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.
Saint Basil -
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
Adrian Goldsworthy