I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these… — Anthony B Pinn Copy Share Image
When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“the very definition of a Republic, is "an Empire of Laws, and not of men.” — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall,… — Dan Quisenberry Copy Share Image
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and . . . every empire imagines itself an exception.” — Ann Laura Stoler Copy Share Image
The long years of fighting Napoleon's ambitions for a world empire had hardened the British into an 'us-against-them' mentality. — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
I just watch movies I like over and over. It seems to be a lot of sci-fi stuff. My favorites are probably… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Controlling nothing. Consider that! The youngling and the aged experience it — the struggle with ineffectuality. Controlling nothing is the true death.… — John Jackson Miller Copy Share Image
There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
In the Great Mongol Empire, Mongols governed by a written law called the 'Ih Zasag,' which is translated as 'the Great Order.'… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - the United States, Europe… — Wang Jianlin Copy Share Image
The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger . . . they are driven by greed, if their… — Wayne Allyn Root Copy Share Image
“Be fair, my friends! To be the empire of such an emperor, what a splendid destiny for a nation, when that nation… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
“Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when… — M.H. Hyndman Copy Share Image
