Hegemonistic Quotes & Sayings

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic. — Roman Abramovich

Took me a few years to understand what intelligence is; Took me an entire lifetime to understand ignorance. I still haven't found an explanation for ignorance, because the ignorant are too ignorant to justify their ignorance. — Robin Sacredfire

you have blown a large breach in the walls of my existence. — Julian Barnes

Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet you attain. — Rama Swami

Living in Hollywood, it's easy to have someone flatter you. That doesn't help me. — Marilyn Manson

But how can I learn to live in a world that doesn't include my brother? All my life, I've always been my brother's sister; it's part of my identity, part of who I am. My brother is part of my past; we share a common history. And we had plans for the future. — T.J. Wray

What do you call a conspiracy theory that's backed up by evidence? Oh yes, a conspiracy — Ian Shircore

America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are. — P. J. O'Rourke

The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet. — Barney Frank

The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling. — Ernest King

I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go. — Peter Hook

As Dr. Leonard Orr has noted, the human mind behaves as if it were divided into two parts, the Thinker and the Prover.

The Thinker can think about virtually anything.
(...) The Prover is a much simpler mechanism. It operates on one law only: Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves. To cite a notorious example which unleashed incredible horrors earlier in this century, if the Thinker thinks that all Jews are rich, the Prover will prove it. It will find evidence that the poorest Jew in the most run-down ghetto has hidden money somewhere. Similarly, Feminists are able to believe that all men, including the starving wretches who live and sleep on the streets, are exploiting all women, including the Queen of England. — Robert Anton Wilson

You ever wake up in the morning and kiss the mirror and say "HELLO BEAUTIFUL" if not you have the wrong connection with your reflection. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair. — Edith M. Thomas

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater. — Haley Joel Osment