O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
My view as a historian is that the empire was an extractive, exploitative, racist and violent institution and that the history of… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Morocco, all of the Middle East… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
Why is Kris Jenner a powerhouse? Because some part of us confuses fame and infamy, too. If she really bothered us half… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Amerika's story is always going to be yours. White. Male. Probably rich. You're Rome and we all know what happened to Rome.… — Daniel Kraus Copy Share Image
Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I think 'Empire' is entertaining. It's a soap opera. Does it touch on stereotypes? Sure, it does... I don't know if that's… — Regina King Copy Share Image
It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
“I was a slave, but never a fool. This empire is vast beyond imagining and we have killed only a fraction of… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
People think, 'Oh, you're doing 'The Wiz' because 'Empire' is such a big hit.' The truth is, staging this musical has been… — Craig Zadan Copy Share Image
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
But while the British empire is easy to write about, it is very difficult to summarise. This is because what we call… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
At its height, Rome's empire stretched right along the coast of north Africa and sub-Saharan Africans passed to and fro across its… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
“The Empire was quickly becoming the other , a featureless grey enemy that species of varied sorts would be able to stave… — James Luceno Copy Share Image
The gulf between imperial ideals and empire on the ground has customarily proved disillusioning not only for colonial peoples but also for… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth.… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm building an empire. How do you know I won't be the next [Universal Music Group Chairman/CEO] Doug Morris one day? I'm… — DJ Khaled Copy Share Image
So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
“What really lies beneath our feet at each moment is not a usefulness, but an inaccessible netherworld that we can use because… — Graham Harman Copy Share Image
“Throughout the world, more and more entrepreneurs, engineers, experts, scholars, lawyers and managers are called to join the empire. They must ponder… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Stay up building your empire if you must, cut all negative ties if you must, sacrifice some things if you must, but… — Kabelo Mabona Copy Share Image
While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image