Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or defeats:
“The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.”
—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)
“Such simple things,
And we make of them something so complex it defeats us,
Almost. Why cant everything be simple again?...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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