Empires Quotes · Page 6

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

— Hugo Chavez

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

— Julius Caesar

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

— Marianne Faithfull

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

— Michel de Montaigne

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

— John Boyd Orr

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

— Thucydides

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

— Edward Gibbon

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

— Sid Meier

Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America.

— Andre Vltchek

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated…

— Gary Oldman

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the…

— Thomas Hutchinson

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and…

— Javier Bardem

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand,…

— Garet Garrett

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He…

— Baron Vaughn

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education…

— Aristotle

In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the…

— Noah Webster

And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men,…

— James Harrington

Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most…

— Marquis de Custine

Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous…

— Ken Dodd

“Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force…

— Henry Kissinger

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though,…

— Haruki Murakami

The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget…

— Chittaranjan Das

Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay.…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several…

— Plato

The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of…

— Ruth Hurmence Green

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame…

— Arundhati Roy

It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.…

— Edward Gibbon

The Maharishi had invited us all to go to India to his ashram in the Indian Himalaya. We were there studying meditation…

— Pattie Boyd

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

— Thomas Gray

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

— Woodrow Wilson

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

— Pat Buchanan

Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

— Lionel

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

— Publilius Syrus

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.

— Qin Shi Huang

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

— Robert Wyatt