British Rule

Famous quotes containing the words british and/or rule:

    “If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It’s part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.”
    —British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)

    “Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We’re no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.”
    —Jane Rule (b. 1931)