Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. — Solon Copy Share Image
Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
“I've toppled empires. I can figure out how to get water to the right temperature.” — S.E. Anderson Copy Share Image
You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Utterly absorbing… If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Many analysts compare Turkey with countries in the Middle East, but I think we need to compare it with Russia. Both countries… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke… — Lord Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
