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 conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.
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Suzy Kassem
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness —...
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Arundhati Roy
I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of the force they will bring against us. They will kill us, all of us, for we are slaves and we cannot be allowed...
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Anthony Ryan
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 civilizations in resurrection and decay. Its the blue skin-smell...
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Gregory David Roberts
An excerpt from:“ Hypothetically Speaking”ByAnthony T. Hincks(A book about you and the world — coming soon! ) If I was a savvy person, I would watch, and study mankind in order to find out where his weaknesses lay. Greed, for sure; vanity; mistrust; a tendency...
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Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Lyndon B. Johnson
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively cripple each generation...
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.
Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.
