Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
“You don't need to work hard to earn an empire; there is an army of slaves to do it for you.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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
I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which was a year's earnings… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt… — John Perkins 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
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
If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty… — Mark Shand Copy Share Image
“Thus the British Empire came into existence; and thus - for there is no stopping damp; it gets into the inkpot as… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only… — Rawi Hage 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
I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
At its height, Rome's empire stretched right along the coast of north Africa and sub-Saharan Africans passed to and fro across its… — David Olusoga 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
“... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
Going to the roof of the Empire State Building is pretty amazing for kids. — Adam Scott Copy Share Image
This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud,… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Return of the Jedi' has always been favorite. It almost goes backwards for me. 'Return of the Jedi,' then 'Empire,' then 'Star… — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason,… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
