"In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question."

-- Cecil Rhodes

#Country Quotes #War Quotes #Order Quotes

“There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes cannot catch although it can be felt. In art this state is called dynamic movement.”

Source : 'Cubofuturism', Malevich, in Essays on Art, op. cit., Vol 2.; as quoted in Futurism, ed. Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2008, p. 59, 1913.
“The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.”

Source : Interview with Johann Hari, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.
“In life, there are no perfect affections.”

Source : James Ingram Merrill (2004). “Collected Prose”, Knopf
“The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.”
“This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.”
“Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America,”
“You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.”

Source : Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.53, Penguin
“What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?”

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