“...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.” — Roger Casement 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
“An empire cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within.” — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“the very definition of a Republic, is "an Empire of Laws, and not of men.” — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. — Tacitus 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 Empire pretends it’s about law and order, but at the end of the day, it’s about dressing up oppression in the… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country,… — Kenny Everett Copy Share Image
Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the… — Joseph Howe Copy Share Image
It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the… — John Amery Copy Share Image
The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic.… — Jim Cooper 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
“The Empire needed no new weapons. It built the greatest weapon in the history of the galaxy. Twice. It did not need… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“And Mallow laughed joyously. "You've missed, Sutt, missed as badly as the Commdor himself. You've missed everything, and understood nothing. The Empire… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
I met Nikkhil Advani some time back and expressed my willingness to work with him. And then, he came back to me… — Dino Morea Copy Share Image
“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've… — Billy Porter 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
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the… — Nouriel Roubini 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
“Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel.” — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its… — Ben Pimlott Copy Share Image
“America is an empire. And sooner or later, every empire falls." -Maryanna Louis” — Tristan Slaughter 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
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. — Robert D. Kaplan Copy Share Image
