Quotes About The Ottoman Empire

#1. We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.

George H. W. Bush

#2. The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood.

Ken Follett

#3. Turkey has never been colonized, so it remained as an independent nation after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Mustafa Akyol

#4. Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud.

Cory Doctorow

#5. On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.

Eliot Engel

#6. There is no greater motor for architecture than religious fervor. Ancient examples include the Inca, Aztec Egyptian civilizations. In more recent times, Christianity gave rise to the Gothic and Romanesque architecture of the European middle ages and Islam produced the wonders of the Ottoman Empire.

Helen Grant Ross

#7. The Ottoman Empire ... The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much - were mostly interested in robbing them - and they left them alone to run their own affairs ... with a lot of local self determination.

Noam Chomsky

#8. Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse than war. The maintenance of the Ottoman Empire belongs to the First Class, the Occupation of Turkey by Russia belongs to the Second.

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

#9. The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it.

Baron De Montesquieu

#10. Vision, of the Ittihadists and, by extension, Kemal Ataturk, did not include the non-Muslim population of what was once the Ottoman Empire.

Eric Bogosian

#11. So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for fuck all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

Eddie Izzard

#12. In many ways, the system of government, taxation and military organization developed by the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was the envy of Western Europe.

Noel Malcolm

#13. As part of his administrative reforms, Suleiman lowered taxes on peasants in his Empire. This led to immigration of Christian peasants who left the rest of Europe to live and work in the Ottoman Empire.

Firas Alkhateeb

#14. The smallpox vaccination was developed in the Ottoman Empire. The vaccine subsequently made its way to England through the wife of an English ambassador who observed the practice in Istanbul.

Firas Alkhateeb

#15. Coffee was first introduced by Yemeni Muslims. When Ottoman Empire grew, coffee spread to Istanbul and from there to the rest of Europe.

Firas Alkhateeb

#16. I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Roseanne Barr

#17. Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky?
Was there a father?
Or have the planets cut holes in their nets
and let our childhood out,
or are we the dolls themselves,
born but never fed?

Anne Sexton

#18. As much as you may want to, you can't make yourself love someone, and as much as it sucks, you can't make yourself not love someone either. Love is its own fucking beast.

Stevie J. Cole

#19. That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Walter M. Miller Jr.

#20. What is wrong with you? ARe you the only guy in the universe who doesn't like a blow job?

Elise Allen

#21. We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we've seen happen in those countries where we helped bring about an Arab Spring that's turned into a Winter Nightmare.

Louie Gohmert

#22. The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

William Stafford

#23. Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

Grenville Kleiser

#24. When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

Julie Burchill

#25. But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

Jack Vance

#26. The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.

Johnny Winter

#27. At a rate of 3 percent inflation, the buying power of unprotected income plunges by half over a 20-year period.

Jonathan Peterson

#28. I'm not stupid, I realise selling it is not as important as it used to be that way, I think it's more important to get your music out there and if people want to hear it an mp3 form or whatever I'm fine with that, I just don't enjoy the sound of it at home for personal taste.

Butch Walker

#29. Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

#30. When you want to do something, feel it, love it, then let it go, it will come back to you.

Debasish Mridha

#31. It is neither favorable nor unfavorable, because no one is there to favor it.

Frederick Lenz

#32. People say, 'What are your hobbies?' I say, 'I've been doing shows ever since I was a kid.' When I left college, all I wanted to be was a musical theater chick. I auditioned tons. It just didn't pan out.

Stephanie Courtney