"Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot. He stresses the organic development of the British constitution, prefers evolution to revolution, and thinks stability is better than strife."

-- David Cannadine

#Stress Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control their markets, extort tribute, undermine their cultures, destroy their villages, steal their lands and natural resources, enslave their labor, and accumulate vast wealth.”
“As long as the day lasts, let's give it all we got.”
“There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.”
“Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.”

Source : "Parting salvo from Malaysia's iron man" by John Aglionby, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2003.
“The Palestinian society is split into two - those who are openly calling for Israel's destruction like Hamas, and those who are not calling openly for Israel's destruction but refuse to confront those who do. They're timid, they're afraid to actually stand up to these killers. They're afraid, maybe for their own sake, for their own political hides, sometimes for their own physical safety. And they don't take that necessary plunge.”
“The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime”
“I'm going to prove the impossible really exists”

Source : Song: Cover Me, Album: Post, 1995
“If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.”

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