British Empire/decolonisation and Decline 1945%e2%80%931997

Famous quotes containing the words british, empire and/or decline:

    “Jane Hudson: Bravo.
    Rosano Brazzi: Grazie.
    Jane Hudson: Prego. That about concludes my entire performance in Italian.”
    —H.E. Bates, British screenwriter, and David Lean. Jane Hudson (Katherine Hepburn)

    “Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
    Consider the Empire and Gandhi.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    “Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.”
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)