Quotes About Territory

Every outlaw and every rattlesnake in the territory that knew what was good for him would stay well back today from Mariah Stover.

I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.

I know you were here first," Letitia said. "I know you think it's your place. But you don't get to keep it all to yourself, not anymore. I'm staying. Dead or alive, at war or in peace—that's up to you.

70 per cent to avoid a humiliating defeat (to our reputation as a guarantor) – 20 per cent to keep South Vietnam (and the adjacent territory) from Chinese hands – 10 per cent to permit the people of South Vietnam to enjoy a better, freer way of life'.

el estado moderno es una asociación de dominación con carácter institucional que ha tratado, con éxito, de monopolizar dentro de un territorio la violencia física legítima como medio de dominación y que, a este fin, ha reunido todos los medios materiales en manos de su dirigente y ha expropiado a todos los funcionarios estamentales que antes disponían de ellos por derecho propio, sustituyéndolos con sus propias jerarquías supremas.

Weber's achievement was not to definitively answer a riddle but to stake out a territory fertile of new puzzles at the heart of which is the claim that religious forces, not simply economic ones, paved the way for the mentality characteristic of modern, Western capitalism.

A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.

A language is a dialect with an army and navy.

A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.

God created land, politicians created boundaries. - On globalization

Never make eye contact with a wolf. The wolf will take it as a challenge.  

As Margaret would later write, Europe had come to seem "my America," an unsettled territory where liberty was at hand, while the New World she had left behind had grown "stupid with the lust of gain, soiled by crime in its willing perpetuation of slavery, shamed by an unjust war," the imperialist conflict with Mexico over the annexation of Texas.

Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

Atribuir un nombre es un acto de poder. La primera y más definitiva ocupación de un territorio ajeno.

Emperors hunger for land, and their soldiers are mouths that devour nations.

f]emales are very interested in colonizing high-value male spaces,

Even before he buried Frank, Charlie decided he'd stay with the outfit until it got to New Mexico Territory, draw his pay, and strike out for the gold camps around Silver City. He'd stake a claim and, if luck was with him, find a vein of silver or pan a stream filled with gold nuggets. If that didn't work out, he could always return to thieving for a stake and ride down into Old Mexico to avoid the law, or push on farther west to California.

When we place our immediate conflicts in the territory of an archetypal story we can better see the nature of our problems and find solutions that bring creative imagination to bear in the realm of hard facts and hardening dilemmas.

it had to when it was accompanying a march (political) or procession (religious) both of which were frequent in Malta; and practically every route took it through some rival territory.

Demand Congress declare war against ISIS and destroy them. ISIS claims to be a formal state. They control territory, have declared war on the United States

The note was paid in full on the due date and Starr never robbed their bank. In fact, none of the Phillips banks were ever robbed. A remarkable record, considering that for many years there was at least one bank robbery per day in Indian Territory. Frank bragged that he never lost a penny in dealing with oil operators or outlaws.

La Géorgie et l'Arménie, sur lesquelles la Russie tente de mettre la main en distribuant à ceux qui en font la demande des passeports de la Fédération de Russie, multipliant ainsi le nombre de citoyens russes dans ces pays

What is happening now is not a surprise. It was predicted. If anything, it is happening faster than predicted, said Mick Mulroy, the Pentagon's former top Middle East policy official and an ABC News analyst. We are not seeing the worst of it. The Taliban is not only taking territory, they are killing people with the weapons we provided to Afghan security forces, said Mulroy, a former CIA officer and Marine infantryman who served in Afghanistan.

The State, in the words of Oppenheimer, is the "organization of the political means"; it is the systematization of the predatory process over a given territory.