Empires Quotes · Page 10

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

— Emile M. Cioran

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

— Francis Bacon

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.

— Bryan Ward-Perkins

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

— Joseph Chamberlain

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

— J. William Fulbright

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

— John Oliver

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

— Peter the Great

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool…

— Rudyard Kipling

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

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century…

— Sadiq Khan

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder…

— Edward Said

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

— Edward Young

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

— Linus Torvalds

Both the Eurozone and European Union is like the end of the Roman Empire. It's already started. In a few years' time…

— Geert Wilders

My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break…

— Timothy Leary

Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this…

— George Washington

The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities,…

— Ralph Nader

We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to…

— Coolio

This is an age of science. ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an…

— Wickliffe Rose

Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies…

— Herbert W. Armstrong

His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for…

— Bob Colacello

Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was…

— Richard Engel

In trading with each other cities can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another. Backward cities,…

— Jane Jacobs

With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again -…

— Hisham Melhem

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,…

— Karl Marx

One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early…

— Noam Chomsky

I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed…

— John Adams

The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington's global attacks. There had never been…

— William Blum

The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and…

— Friedrich Schiller

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

— Fred Dibnah

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire,

— Hugo Chavez

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job

— Nicole Polizzi

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

— Lauren Conrad

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

— Mencius

The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.

— Ze'ev Jabotinsky

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

— Mohsen Rezaee

There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

— Chuck Berry