Empires Quotes · Page 8

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

— John Lothrop Motley

“I've toppled empires. I can figure out how to get water to the right temperature.”

— S.E. Anderson

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow;

— Andrew Marvell

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

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

— John Boyd Orr

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

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Marianne Faithfull

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that…

— Brent Scowcroft

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

— Jane Jacobs

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

— Genghis Khan

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

— Kevin J. Anderson

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

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological…

— John Mearsheimer

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got…

— Ken Loach

In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British…

— Philip French

Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My…

— Herrick Johnson

Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is…

— Thomas Carlyle

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like…

— Doris Lessing

The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline…

— Tom Winnifrith

It is said that the British Empire is very large and respectable, and that the United States are a first-rate power. We…

— Henry David Thoreau

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the…

— Anonymous

The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to…

— Neal Ascherson

You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did,…

— Roma Tearne

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and…

— Robert Penn Warren

Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the…

— Sean Wilentz

I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in…

— Olaf Stapledon

Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the…

— Francine Rivers

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At…

— A. A. Gill

Being satisfied to drink the dregs from the cup of human progress will not demonstrate our fitness as a people to exist…

— Marcus Garvey

It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can

— Stafford Cripps

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

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

— Dana Gioia

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

— Niall Ferguson

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

— Nick Hornby

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

— Nicki Minaj