Quotes About Expansion

The courts, instead of being constraints on government, have become alternative instruments for the expansion of government.

At the time of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788, only white males with property had full political rights; the circle of rights bearers gradually expanded to include white men without property, African-Americans, indigenous people, and women.

When used as an instrument of enforcement, the courts have morphed from constraints on government to mechanisms by which the scope of government has enormously expanded.

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here or shall she not?

The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling for himself, to gather competence or wealth. The expansion of New France was the achievement of a gigantic ambition striving to grasp a continent. It was a vain attempt.

Like so many ancient cities, Perugia has long outgrown her early walls, and much of the new town is remorselessly ugly.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far'--and when others follow, as they will, move on.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open.

It isn't the growth of a nation that creates a man. It isn't material expansion or monetary development. It comes from inside. When there is nothing there is infinite potential for something. Where there is darkness, light is there to fill it.

I feel my soul as vast as the world, truly a soul as deep as the deepest of rivers; my chest has the power to expand to infinity. I was made to give and they prescribe for me the humility of the cripple.

There is a psychological phenomenon that consists in the belief that the world will open to the extent to which frontiers are broken down.

The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.

Green Capitalism", even if products are produced using the utmost environmental care and designed for easy reuse, offers not way out of a system that must expand exponentially and thus, continue to ratchet up its use of natural resources, its chemical pollution, its contaminated sewage sludge, its garbage, and its many other toxic substances. Some of these "fixes" will probably slow down the rate of environmental destruction, but the magnitude of the needed changes dwarfs these approaches.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

For every state, from the smallest to the largest, the principle of enlargement is the fundamental law of life.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

My Amazon had under 150,000 employees. By the end of 2020, it had an astounding 1.3 million employees.

Unlike traditional retailers, Amazon boasted what was called a negative operating cycle. Customers paid with their credit cards when their books shipped but Amazon settled its accounts with the book distributors only every few months. With every sale, Amazon put more cash in the bank, giving it a steady stream of capital to fund its operations and expansion.14 The company could also lay claim to a uniquely high return on invested capital. Unlike

The human mind demands intellectual expansion and expression."

It is a time of change,'' Sazed said. ''Perhaps it is also time to learn of other truths, other ways.

Sequels always have to be bigger.