Top Aztec Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Aztec quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Sarah Vowell
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.
- Sarah Vowell
Collection: Aztec
Image of Sarah Vowell
The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top
- Sarah Vowell
Collection: Aztec
Image of Blake Lewis
Aztec has played a big part in delivering the solutions that our Dallas office has spent timeless hours and energy searching for.
- Blake Lewis
Collection: Aztec
Image of Eric Wolf
In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder and to submit vast areas to tribute payment, without altering the essential social constitution of their victims
- Eric Wolf
Collection: Aztec
Image of Ilona Andrews
The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles.
- Ilona Andrews
Collection: Aztec
Image of Joseph Campbell
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'
- Joseph Campbell
Collection: Aztec