I think that running empires as a way of ordering the…

In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see…

— Russell Smith

I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.

— Libba Bray

“We cherish all that we have accomplished. But our world is still flawed. Hate exists, as does prejudice and war.”

— Liu Cixin

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

— Edward Gibbon

[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be…

— Elie Wiesel

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in…

— Wilhelm II

The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would…

— Ron Paul

the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who…

— Richard Cobden

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and…

— H. Rider Haggard

Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples…

— Philip Yancey

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

— William Safire

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire…

— Paul von Hindenburg

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from…

— Steven Spielberg