Empire Quotes · Page 9

“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”

— Suzy Kassem

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

“Being a nation means standing up to your equals, whereas being an empire only means kicking your inferiors.”

— G.K. Chesterton

I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job…

— Vincent Piazza

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude.

— Joel Salatin

'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.

— Jill Lepore

Using food as a way of understanding empire is highly effective. Food knows no barriers of race, gender or even time.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could…

— Neil MacGregor

I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall,…

— Dan Quisenberry

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire…

— Fidel Castro

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

“Controlling nothing. Consider that! The youngling and the aged experience it — the struggle with ineffectuality. Controlling nothing is the true death.…

— John Jackson Miller

I did sing in another film called 'Empire Records' which is a cult film. 'Grease 2' is also a cult film. You…

— Maxwell Caulfield

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

“Empire building. Leaders who favor an us-versus-them style tend to be empire builders, seeking out opportunities to grow their teams and their…

— Camille Fournier

I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not…

— Richard Flanagan

“The Sun Tzu School (which wrote the Art of War) surely never imagined that their antiwar, pro-empire treatise would become known and…

— David G. Jones

“The empires collapsed to rubble. Skyscrapers dragged down to the ground. It was chaos. I could smell the end. It smells of…

— Moonshine Noire

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

— Robert Payne

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an…

— Fidel Castro

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

— Herbert Kaufman

When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or…

— Mark Lawrence

“That's how tyranny succeeds. When folks think it won't affect them until eventually it does.”

— Karen Traviss

The British especially have no excuse for forgetting that empire is a most complex and persistent beast. And it has claws.

— Linda Colley

“Sublime wonders lie in store, I am shown a regal residence; a mighty kingdom, an empire with more grandeur than before ...”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

I'm going to build an empire. I'm always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all…

— Charli XCX

I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men' and 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really like period stuff.

— Jeremy Allen White

I have restaurants, bookshops... but it's not an empire, more... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be…

— Alain Ducasse

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

— Michael Mandelbaum

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.

— Tariq Ali

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.

— CM Punk

“Voltaire, rightly commented that it was ‘neither Holy, nor Roman nor an Empire’.”

— Christopher Lascelles

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

— Victoria Beckham

“Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight and conquer and the whole Empire says, “Well done!”

— Sun Tzu

In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions…

— Robert Dallek

“There was the whole world; if she loved him like this, nothing could make them wretched; his love would be enough for…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

“The collapsing of an empire. This changing word moves inexorably on. Thoughts bubble and the stiller the mind the more palpable the…

— Stephen Batchelor

When I first did 'Empire,' it was a severe break from everything I'd written up to that point, which is all very…

— Mark Waid

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a…

— Barbara Amiel

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and…

— Robert Trout