Territory Quotes

This is virgin territory out here for whorehouses. (Al Capone)
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The map is not the territory ... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map... View quote
Alfred Korzybski
Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. View quote
Smedley Butler
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique. View quote
Michael E. Porter
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. View quote
Elihu Root
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. View quote
Frederick Sanger
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. View quote
Robert Toombs
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative. View quote
Tracy Kidder
The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization. (Buckminster Fuller)
The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more. View quote
Germaine Greer
The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured. View quote
Yann Martel
The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The backgrounds of principal officials are diverse, they all share a common commitment to our country, our territory and our people and agree with my governing philosophy. View quote
Donald Tsang
The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians? View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It was the White Man who created the miraculous world of electronics, ushering in the telephone, the radio and television. It was the White Race, who in a combined burst of energy and genius sent rockets to the moon and planted the feet of the White Man on extra-terrestrial territory in the last decade. View quote
Ben Klassen
The bible belt is oral territory and therefore despised by the literati. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to significant wealth, but that wealth does not signify power; women are to be found everywhere, but own or control no appreciable territory; women live with those who oppress them, sleep with them, have their children - we are tangled, hopelessly it seems, in the gut of the machinery and way of life which is ruinous to us. (Andrea Dworkin)
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free. View quote
Camille Paglia
Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages. View quote
Camille Paglia
When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him. View quote
Anton LaVey