Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in… — Colm Keaveney Copy Share Image
Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility.… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then… — Loretta Napoleoni Copy Share Image
I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the… — Indu Sundaresan Copy Share Image
The highest truth is daiji, translated as dai jiki in Chinese scriptures. This is the subject of the question the emperor asked… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When I'm wrong I'm like the Emperor on the Death Star thinking he'll turn Luke. Yet, when I'm right I'm a Jedi… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,'… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Back in the day, when the emperor or the king or whatever waged war, they went to war, too. But that's been… — Daron Malakian Copy Share Image
At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude -… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration;… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor,… — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity.… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image