 Moreover, we cannot fix the exact point at which our empire shall stop; we have reached a position in which we must not be content with retaining what we have but must scheme to extend it for, if we cease to rule others, we shall be in danger of being...  The Last Days of the Incas - Page 34by Kim MacQuarrie - 2007 - 512 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Thucydides - 1874 - 738 pages
...conquests, and should rather run a risk of losing the old. Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first...fix the exact point at which our empire shall stop; but we have reached a position in which we must scheme against some and keep our hold upon others,... | |
 | Douglas C. Lummis - 1996 - 204 pages
...themselves and to give none to others" ( i .70), said a Corinthian speaker at the beginning of the war; "We cannot fix the exact point at which our empire shall stop" (6.18), says Alcibiades toward the end. Yet Thucydides suggests that there is something, a kind of... | |
 | J. Peter Euben - 1997 - 287 pages
...California, 1970). this is Alcibiades, who justifies precisely an adventure Pericles enjoined by claiming, "We cannot fix the exact point at which our empire shall stop" (6. 1 8). However, Pericles' first speech ends not with his fears but with a call to glory that explicitly... | |
 | Jack Donnelly - 2000 - 244 pages
...Alcibiades appeals to a most un-Waltzian imperative to expand. Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first...blow to prevent the attack being made. And we cannot ftx the exact point at which our empire shall stop; we have reached a position in which we must not... | |
 | Ted Galen Carpenter - 2001 - 198 pages
...the imperatives of security compel a hegemon constantly to seek to expand its power and influence: 'We cannot fix the exact point at which our empire...position in which we must not be content with retaining what we have but must scheme to extend for, if we cease to rule others, we shall be in danger of being... | |
 | T. V. Paul, James J. Wirtz, Michel Fortmann - 2004 - 400 pages
...the imperatives of security compel a hegemon constantly to seek to expand its power and influence: "We cannot fix the exact point at which our empire...position in which we must not be content with retaining what we have but must scheme to extend for, if we cease to rule others, we shall be in danger of being... | |
 | Bruce Kapferer - 2004 - 98 pages
...point where it seemed they would collapse if they could not expand. "We cannot fix the exact limit at which our empire shall stop; we have reached a...position in which we must not be content with retaining what we have but must scheme to extend it, for if we cease to rule others, we shall be in danger of... | |
 | Marshall Sahlins - 2004 - 349 pages
...Sicily, when he argues that Athens must collapse if she cannot expand: "We cannot fix the exact limit at which our empire shall stop; we have reached a...position in which we must not be content with retaining what we have but must scheme to extend it for, if we cease to rule others, we shall be in danger of... | |
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