Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“When empires fall, what becomes of the Queen? Everything will burn, and so will she.” — Katie Jennings Copy Share Image
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire. — David Irving Copy Share Image
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever." — Edith Durham Copy Share Image
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
In the same way the Brits had to get used to the idea that the sun had set on the British Empire,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
He [Julius Caesar] learned that Alexander , having completed nearly all his conquests by the time he was thirty-two years old, was… — Augustus Copy Share Image
There is no surer mark of a low and unregenerate nature than this tendency of power to loudness and wantonness instead of… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
You know, Steve Jobs came to the music industry and pitched them the idea and they kept shootin' him down and shootin'… — Pitbull Copy Share Image
What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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