“The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.”
Michael Kazin
Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“English does not distinguish between arrogant-up (irreverence toward the temporarily powerful) and arrogant-down (directed at the small guy).”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.”
Edward Rutherfurd
New York
“You don't go missing in a museum- you just get temporarily absorbed by the walls.”
Neal Shusterman
Unwind
“The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
Tina Fey
Bossypants