If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“It was an age of Empires. So is this one, not all that well disguised.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing. — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. — Solon Copy Share Image
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist. — Seth Gordon Copy Share Image
One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Kaytoo [from the Star Wars] is more even-keeled. And he's a badass. He comes from the Empire, and he's a security droid.… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British… — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
When you look at my life, you can go back to the late 1930s, what I saw was, first of all, Hitler,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand,… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If you're the King of Jordan, if you're a part of the royal family in Saudi Arabia and he's made this deal… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“I'd better get back to work. I have empires to topple, people to fire, lives to ruin...” — Whitney Gaskell Copy Share Image
The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city. — Deborah Kerr Copy Share Image
Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. — Chris Johnson Copy Share Image
![“Kaytoo [from the Star Wars] is more even-keeled. And he's a badass. He comes from the Empire, and he's a security droid. Some people call him an enforcer droid. He has the ability to enforce things. That was what he was built for. He's tall. He has an intimidating frame.” quote by Alan Tudyk](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4e8/alan-tudyk-7208_ability_kaytoo-from-the-star-wars-is-more-even-k_2651843.jpg)
