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Quotes About Territory

Yeah, we taught him a lesson," the Texan said, his voice fading in and out with the wind. "These goddamn Indians got to learn whose property this is!
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Israel has never hidden its goal, creating a vacuum in the Palestinian territory.
~ Gilles Deleuze
When asked what he was fighting for, General Washington, in writing to General Thomas, said the object was 'neither glory nor extent of territory, but a defense of all that is dear and valuable in life.' He must have been an umpire. That's what umpiring is about.
~ Doug Harvey
But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!
~ Janny Wurts
So many land mines in this new territory called adulthood. Talent has a window. Freedom sometimes becomes a trap. We may die before we finish our dreams. Acutally, that we die is a pretty big surprise by itself. We can't spend innocence without accounting. Relationships are contracts. We partner not just for love but because we become too weak to make it alone.
~ Jardine Libaire
and went on to colonize the next island again. It was a hitherto unprecedented
~ Jared Diamond
Para que una nación compuesta por millones de individuos divididos en grupos con perspectivas contrarias sobre la identidad de su territorio pueda responder a la pregunta de «¿quiénes somos?», hace falta mucho más que el paso del tiempo.
~ Jared Diamond
Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: A hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - that engenders the territory.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Poblad igualmente el territorio, extended por todas partes los mismos derechos, llevad a todas ellas la abundancia y la vida; y de este modo el Estado llegará a ser al mismo tiempo el más fuerte y el mejor gobernado de todos.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.
~ Unknown
Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
If the Gaza ceasefire proves stable, Israel will not remain in the Strip.
~ Ehud Olmert
The problem is we disagree about the origin. Is this occupied land or not?
~ Hassan Nasrallah
All of the land of Israel is ours.
~ Yitzhak Shamir
All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.
~ Apollonius of Tyana
Look, I'm a person, an individual with a character and part of my character is about what I believe in and part of my beliefs obviously is a religious conviction. I simply hesitate whenever I get drawn into this territory because I have found, over time, that it either leads to people misunderstanding the basis upon which you are taking decisions or it leads to people trying to colonise God or religion for one particular political position. I make no claims to that at all.
~ Tony Blair
For me, once I've made a cup of tea I belong somehow. It's like I'm marking out my territory, and anyone attempting to come and make a cup of tea on my patch will be dealt with most severely, more likely than not with a counter attack into their territory and the seizure of their milk cartons and shortbread biscuits.
~ Unknown
DO NOT ENTER, BY ORDER OF QUEEN WASP. PROPERTY OF THE QUEEN. TRESPASSING PUNISHABLE BY MAIMING, DISMEMBERMENT, IMPALING, AND DEATH, IN THAT ORDER.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Tackling Old Testament ethics is a challenge. Besides a lot of territory to cover, the ancient Near East seems so strange and even otherworldly! We need a good bit of background discussion to help make better sense of this world and of certain Old Testament texts.
~ Paul Copan
The potent mix of Nietzschean philosophy, psychology, history, and clinical practice was leading him into new territory
~ Unknown
just a short trip to any French territory in the Pacific is enough to convince even the most casual observer that the French are among the most self-serving, manipulative, trivial-minded, obnoxious, cynical, and corrupting nations on the face of the earth.
~ Paul Theroux
The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.
~ Peter Clewes
By July, oil prices were beginning to subside.13 But the consequences of the offensive were startling. With its fanatic but well-organized military drive, ISIS had redrawn, at least for a time, the map at the heart of the Middle East. It now controlled a contiguous territory that reached from north-central Syria all the way across Iraq to Mosul—almost the same distance as from London to Edinburgh—with as many as eight million people under its rule.
~ Daniel Yergin
the consequences of the offensive were startling. With its fanatic but well-organized military drive, ISIS had redrawn, at least for a time, the map at the heart of the Middle East. It now controlled a contiguous territory that reached from north-central Syria all the way across Iraq to Mosul—almost the same distance as from London to Edinburgh—with as many as eight million people under its rule.
~ Daniel Yergin