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Quotes About Territorial

All is interdependent in a civilized society; it is impossible to reform any one thing without altering the whole. Therefore, on the day we strike at private property, under any one of its forms, territorial or industrial, we shall be obliged to attack them all. The very success of the Revolution will demand it.
~ Peter Kropotkin
The Bible itself is a dynamic text full of poetry, prose, history, law and myth all clashing together in a cacophony of voices. We are presented with a warrior God and a peacemaker, a God of territorial allegiance and a God who transcends all territorial divides, an unchanging God and a God who can be redirected, a God of peace and a God of war, a God who is always watching the world and a God who fails to notice the oppression against Israel in Egypt.
~ Peter Rollins
Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.
~ Julia Glass
A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
~ Publilius Syrus
In each territory, the dominant misl levied a rakhi (protection tax) on Sikh and non-Sikh peasants.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conservationist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my books or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule.
~ Ray Bradbury
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
~ Oliver Herford
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.
~ Jane Goodall
Territorial expansion demands warriors and, once population levels are stable, demotes the female role. Once religious empires have not just an idea but a territory to call their own, the soldiers of god are of more value than his handmaidens.
~ Bettany Hughes
The Channel is an international waterway through which the Russians are quite free to pass - and over which we have no exclusive right.
~ Peter Hitchens
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.
~ Vanessa Veselka
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honour the territorial imperative.
~ Eugene McCarthy
The Company's conquest of India almost certainly remains the supreme act of corporate violence in world history. For all the power wielded today by the world's largest corporations – whether ExxonMobil, Walmart or Google – they are tame beasts compared with the ravaging territorial appetites of the militarised East India Company.
~ William Dalrymple
Conversion, like conquest, can be a process of crossing over into the domain–territorial, emotional, religious, or cultural–of someone else and claiming it as one's own.
~ Douglas Robinson
Wal-Mart's relationship to place has become so abstracted that the company views even its own stores through the conquistador's eyeglass. Like temporary forts built solely for purposes of territorial conquest, any one of them can be abandoned at any time.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Territorial disputes have at all times been found one of the most fertile sources of hostility among nations. Perhaps the greatest proportion of wars that have desolated the earth have sprung from this origin.
~ Alexander Hamilton
The common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our fish stocks and - I would hope - that if we leave the European Union, we can once more see the ports of Peterborough and Fraserhead and Grimsby flourishing, because we will take back control of our territorial waters.
~ Michael Gove
Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
~ Jack Hanna
We can only talk to those who opt for the sovereign, territorially integral, secular, multiethnic and multi-confessional Syria.
~ Sergei Lavrov
Piper to Drew: P: In case youthink Im not a true Daughter of Aphrodite dont even look at Jason Grace. He may not know it yet but he's mine. If you even try to make a move, I will load you into a catapult and shoot you across Long Island Sound.
~ Rick Riordan
We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.
~ Frans de Waal
China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
~ Li Zhaoxing
14. A general association of nations must be formed… for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
~ Woodrow Wilson
For Pete's sake, Quinn, you should have seen him when I was pregnant. He practically set a peacock on fire for daring to walk across my path in the garden one day.
~ Alyssa Day