Quotes About Territory

I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.

Each suba contained a dozen or so sarkars, each of them led by a faujdar, usually a military officer.

Each sarkar contained a number of parganas or mahals, and there were several villages in every mahal or pargana. Most sarkars contained at least one town, where a kotwal was in charge of security.

This was contrary to the military intelligence, which clearly indicated that the Chinese would resist by force any attempts to take back territory held by them.

A keen practical sense told Ranjit Singh that vassalage was less expensive than governing new pieces of territory with his own limited forces, and less productive of lasting hostility.

the Company 'had long cast covetous eyes on [Punjab]'108. Ranjit Singh did not miss this reality.

Instrument of Accession

We only share our ignorance with others, infact only it IS capable and contagious for it breeds in unawareness, on the contrary Intelligence belongs to an individual's territory, for his very functioning is 'other worldly' and he stands out from the mediocre crowd. What are YOU!

Let sovereignty be granted us over a portion of the earth's surface large enough to satisfy our rightful requirements as a nation. The rest we shall manage for ourselves.

American girls are terrific. American wives take too damn much territory.

To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.

Much fuss has been made over the idea of the frontier, as though it were a line advancing east to west, but the West was settled piece meal, and Indians fled in many directions to escape the tightening noose of the railroad lines and towns.

Hodanje je sušta suprotnost posedovanju. Doživljaj zemlje hodanjem pretpostavlja pokretljivost, golorukost, sudeoništvo. Nomadi su ?esto predstavljali pretnju po nacionalizam zato što svojim skitni?kim životom zamagljuju i prevazilaze utvr?ene granice kojima se definišu nacije.

Even in apparently faithful monogamous species, the female may be wedded to a male's territory rather than to him personally.

Male nightingales need to influence the behaviour of female nightingales , and of other males. Some ornithologists have thought of song as conveying information: 'I am a male of the species Luscinia megarhynchos, in breeding condition, with a territory, hormonally primed to mate and build a nest.

themselves as blocked internally, unable to take the risk of moving into new and more satisfying artistic territory.

Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory.

Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

The preeminent obstacle to peace is Israel's colonization of Palestine.

Israel will not discuss a peace involving the concession of any piece of territory. The neighboring states do not deserve an inch of Israel's land. . . . We are ready for exchange for peace.

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.