“The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.” HumansIdeasFantasyAudienceBattleFemaleDestructionMalesEntertainmentBritishGentleGoddessTroopsSkullsKali Author:Naomi Wolf
“You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.” LooksLongSeemsMovingOrderNaturalMiddlePeriodsConflictBehaviorShadowAreasDestructionCalmVariousBritishEastHopefulEmpiresMiddle EastAsiaAnticipateBritish EmpireNatural OrderLong Shadows Author:Roma Tearne
“No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.” MenFightingRaceMen And WomenDestructionEnglandBritishEmpiresRepublicConstructionBritish Empire Author:James Larkin
“Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.” StatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesWeaponsMassDestructionBritishPossessedUnited NationsHusseinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:Jim Gerlach
“It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.” PeopleHumansMoralBreakSawsCrimeIllusionDestructionFoundationSacredLaysPropertyValuableBritishSupremeCommitCrueltyDeceptionHuman LifeMeritSuperiorityOathCivilisationGangstersInsatiableTreacheryNecessary ThingsMoral Superiority Author:C. L. R. James
“How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!” DoneSimpleImagineEqualDestructionAncientBritishBombsImagine ThatMonumentHavoc Author:Osbert Sitwell
“Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?” WarDreamFatherInterestLeaderDestructionBritishThrownEmpiresHeritageOur FatherAlliancesPricelessBuilderSeamen Book:John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe Source: John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe
“And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” KnowsWarEconomyViolenceAuthorityWeaponsMassResourcesAreasConcernedDestructionIraqBritishOilAcknowledgeIndispensableSaddamHusseinHarborsAngstWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionIraq WarInconvenientSaddened Author:Alan Greenspan