Quote by Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a rol

Summary

This quote reflects the idea that after the decline and dissolution of the British Empire, Great Britain has faced a challenge in defining its new place and purpose in the world. It suggests that the country has not fully discovered or embraced its post-imperial identity and is still searching for a meaningful role on the global stage. The quote may imply a sense of uncertainty and the need for Britain to redefine its national goals and aspirations in a changing geopolitical landscape.

Topics

Empire

By Dean Acheson

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Albert Einstein

Humor Funny Science

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

Life Marriage Man

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what

I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That's not to say you don't make mistakes or make bad choices, but that's part of the art. Painters paint bad paintings.

Christopher Meloni

Art Love Mistakes Choice Help

Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a

Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.

HalldÃ³r Laxness

Truth People

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a bl

I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food.

Family

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When yo

I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album it's lovely to remember being so young but it's also good to know you grew up!

Positive

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise mysel

Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.

Morality Thinking Machine

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

Religion

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Rest Leisure

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Funny Temptation T Shirt Bachelorparty Bachelors

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I do

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

Religion

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you ha

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Katharine Hepburn

Life