Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia. — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“There is living and there is death," the Emperor said. "Pain is irrelevant unless it leads to the latter.” — M.C.A. Hogarth Copy Share Image
I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked. — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
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“emperor is dead, and has been all these years, then the murders we committed are not his responsibility. They are our own.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing… — Cyrus Broacha 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
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
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry. — David Tang Copy Share Image
Rastafari is our king or emperor, and being a king, being an emperor you've been taught all the ways of the ancestors.… — Sizzla Copy Share Image
James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the… — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with… — Yoshiko Sakurai Copy Share Image
Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The victory of the Church over the power which was embodied in the Roman imperial system was not won by seizing the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
I'm against war with the United States. But I am an officer of the Imperial Navy and a subject of His Majesty… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Emperor of Mars: We should be rid of the Earthling now. Count Rochefort: Was your daughter on the ship? Emperor of Mars:… — Jason Copy Share Image
Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“the emperor does not govern the barbarians. Those who come to him will not be rejected, and those who leave will not… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and… — Sharman Apt Russell Copy Share Image
Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon 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
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