Unchecked Expansion Quotes

there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.

'Atlanta' is Wild West-y - every corner of the city is trying to get by under its own rules. There's no single narrative. At the outer edges, the overgrown parking lots and project blocks, the city is a few yards away from apocalypse, and if you slow down, it could engulf you.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural.

But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

Liberalism is a cancer; it's a forest fire; it destroys every single thing it touches.

In the United States no trend ever arrives at its logical conclusion.

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

My biggest worry is that sometimes you know the problem, but you don't do anything about it until it gets too big to be fixed.

I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the boundaries of its banks, and unfortunately, it is flooding all of America with its encroachment.

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have spread out through the galaxy like cancer cells through a living body, Duré. We multiply without thought to the countless life forms that must die or be pushed aside so that we may breed and flourish. We eradicate competing forms of intelligent life.

As time went on, Thanos just sort of grew organically on his own.

Growth by accumulation only is sickness.