“They are the Emperor's spies, his eyes and ears. And occasionally his assassins.” — Jonathan Moeller Copy Share Image
“It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Let me by the child in that story and declare that the Emperor is naked-or that America is culturally bankrupt. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“You don't need to work hard to earn an empire; there is an army of slaves to do it for you.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“But that one single soul was emperor of the universe, no less than each of us.” — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end. — Qin Shi Huang Copy Share Image
“I am the Esteemed Emperor’s Yunan’s trueborn son, with the blood of a long line of emperors running through me. You, on… — K.S. Villoso Copy Share Image
“That’s why the Emperor needs an Empire, Kanan. It’s like a space slug, whose only function is to stay alive. It’s got… — John Jackson Miller Copy Share Image
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Every monarch in the world, except the Emperor of China, wears a military uniform, and bestows the greatest rewards on the man… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry. — David Tang Copy Share Image
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically, it sometimes happens that… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“This phenomenon, of seeing the emperor’s garments although he is naked, has existed for many millennia. This is how even the stupidest… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude -… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Purple emperor-watching with Matthew and Neil is not your average butterfly entertainment, ethereal and somewhat effete. Theirs is a raucous, adrenaline-fuelled spectator… — Isabella Tree Copy Share Image
“At the end of the vacation, I took a steamer alone from Wuhan back up through the Yangtze Gorges. The journey took… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“We are the Sublime Radiance, the Star of India, and the Sun of Glory," said the emperor, who knew a thing or… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things that I've learned, and I think we've all learned, is that we are not going to get the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
