Territory Quotes - Page 15

• Even when it comes to things like wars over oil, which may seem like a whole different ball game, there are still comparisons one can draw: chimps fight for their territory; they fight for the resources within that territory, so it does relate in a way.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Fighting, Games

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Chimps are brutal, and it is so deliberate. The males go out and get near the boundary of their territory. And they walk very silently trying hard not to make any noise. They will climb into a tree and stare out over hostile territory for hours. They are waiting for the right opportunity. And then they attack.

  Jane Goodall

  Opportunity, Tree, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are probably 400 to 500 people, water protectors, north of the 1889 boundary, that was the result of an illegal annexation of treaty territory by the United States against not just the Standing Rock Nation, but the entire Lakota Nation and members of the Great Sioux Nation, the Oceti Sakowin. And so, other tribal governments are weighing in and supporting a fight on the ground, as they have a right to do.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Fighting, Rocks, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm not going to let Defense Distributed go into a pro-social NGO territory. "We should really have more women on the board." That's navel-gazing and destructive ultimately. You have to have a kind of white-hot core identity. So far, I'm in touch with it.

  Cody Wilson

  White, Identity, Hot

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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• I think it's more likely that we can make positive changes happen on environment and military issues if states begin to secede. I don't think it's question of personal lifestyle preference or some sort of parochial identification with your state. I think it's an absolute moral demand that something be done to create a government with some power that can be controlled by the residents of its territory. That was supposedly the idea in creating the United States, but it doesn't exist now and we have to make it exist even if it's piece by piece, part of the United States at a time.

  David Swanson

  Military, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• There are capitalist states which consider themselves cheated, during previous redivisions of
  spheres of influence, territories, sources of raw materials, markets, etc., and which would again desire to redivide them to their own advantage.

  Joseph Stalin

  Desire, Raw Materials, Sphere Of Influence

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• According to our constitution, political emigres have the right to reside on our territory. We accord them the right of asylum, the same as the United States accords the right of asylum to political emigres.

  Joseph Stalin

  Political, United States, Asylums

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• Obviously these [white-guard] emigres enjoy the right of asylum existing also in the U.S. So far as we are concerned we would never tolerate a single terrorist in our territory regardless against whom he would contemplate his crimes. Apparently the right of asylum receives broader interpretation in the U.S.A. than in our country.

  Joseph Stalin

  Country, White, Asylums

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• In what do the activities of the Communist Parties consist? In what ways can they manifest themselves? These activities usually consist in the organization of working masses, in organizing meetings, demonstrations, strikes, etc. It is absolutely clear that American Communists cannot perform this in Soviet territory. The American workers are not in the U.S.S.R.

  Joseph Stalin

  Party, Organization, Way

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• The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of making a film can start to redress this balance and venture into uncharted territory. This is not just about unsung identities but about the subtleties and nuances of contemplation, the drifting spaces in which the worlds of the very small and the very large collide. Camerawork is a part of that.

  Sally Potter

  Space, Balance, Identity

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• How do you reconcile the lifestyle between the United States and Mexico? One is a very prosperous country, the other one is somewhat backwards. I mean, I don't want to denigrate them. And people want to go from Mexico into the US because it's much better there. Mexicans also have a grudge against the US. Most of the Western US was Mexican territory once, but they prefer to being in the US, not Mexico.

  Moshe Arens

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• Because of its huge territory, Russia must devote a great deal of attention to security.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Russia, Attention, Deals

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.

  Sergei Ivanov

  Soldier, Unions, Gains

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• Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in the media reality of the Moon landing. I wanted to use that event as a measure of time, to see what had happened in those thirty years - which happens to be my lifetime as well. I was born in 1967 and I remember seeing the Moon landing on TV when I was two. All those things were in play. Then it became a big production. It took five months to gather up the goodwill and make it happen.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Beach, Moon, Reality

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been obstructed. Now we have to suffer the punishment.... In the Balkan Wars, Serbia not only doubled its territory, but also its external enemies.

  Dimitrije Tucovic

  War, Punishment, Enemy

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• Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Attitude, Crazy

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• I get very nervous in un-trodden territory but it's important to keep doing it just to prove to myself that I can do it.

  Yasmin Paige

  Important, Nervous, Prove

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Artist, Want, Push Yourself

  Source: collider.com

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• Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Civilization, Dominion

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• I cannot say that I am in the slightest degree impressed by your bigness, or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things?

  Thomas Huxley

  Fate, Issues, Degrees

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.260, Cambridge University Press

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• We are organized by territories, whereas terrorists are organized into networks. States are very slow and terrorists are extremely fast. Intelligence sharing needs to expand beyond the regional and become global and not country-focused. We need to acquire speed and agility.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Needs, Agility

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in response, and often does.

  Noam Chomsky

  Doe, Cost, Violence

  Noam Chomsky (2007). “Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance”, p.241, Macmillan

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• Just before I play, I like to feel that no-one has ever played the piano before, that I'm in complete virgin territory, and that every note I play is the most beautiful sound I've ever heard.

  Kenny Werner

  Beautiful, Play, Piano

  Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

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• There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.

  Terence McKenna

  Buddhist, Mean, Skills

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• TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Tvs, Speed, Gunslinger

  Source: collider.com

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