"Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival."

-- John Boyd Orr

#Rivals Quotes #Empires Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
“Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.”
“I've always been under the radar.”
“Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy.”
“Clever is the eunuch version of funny.”
“Its a very good book and i wish i read it first than anyone else!!!!”
“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”
“I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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