Famous quotes containing the words named and/or desire:
“Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)
“The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)