#alexander

Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not result in the export of money. For quite apart from the fact that with these they nourish that spiritual pettiness so appropriate for servitude, they know very well that all the needs which people give themselves are so many chains binding them. When Alexander wished to keep the Ichthyophagi dependent on him, he forced them to abandon fishing and to nourish themselves on foods common to other people. And no one has been able to subjugate the savages in America, who go around quite naked and live only from what their hunting provides. In fact, what yoke could be imposed on men who have no need of anything? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#america #rulers #art

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#also #campbell #cause #coroner #death

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#americas #columbus #conquer #discover #great

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. ↗

— Plutarch

#i #were #would

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#been #had #homer #madman #much

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#century #dead #gone #i #know

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people." ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#amendment #been #court #court decision #decision

My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#catalogues #doing #filled #fun #i

There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#certain #crazy #elicit #passionate #people

Peter to Austin: "Hard-ons don't make you think less. They make you think stupid. Which makes me think you must have one 24/7. ↗

— Dani Alexander

#gay #glbt #humor #insults #mm