Empires Quotes · Page 11

Peace is for the women, and the weak. Empires are forged by war.

— Agamemnon

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

— Edward Thorndike

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire

— Toni Braxton

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the…

— George Berkeley

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires…

— Michael Foot

It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those…

— Jean Baudrillard

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and…

— Barack Obama

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused -…

— George W. Bush

No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they…

— Aime Martin

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV -…

— Rob Sheffield

One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole…

— Thomas Sowell

[Donald] Trump's hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts…

— Chuck Todd

These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up…

— Winston Churchill

In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast…

— James Theodore Bent

As good government is an empire of laws, how shall your laws be made? In a large society, inhabiting an extensive country,…

— John Adams

I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio…

— J. B. Priestley

All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all…

— James Connolly

Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech…

— Milan Kundera

God save the Queen and a fascist regime … a flabby toothless fascism, to be sure. Never go too far in any…

— William S. Burroughs

During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by…

— Thomas Naylor

It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three…

— John Adams

Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have…

— Vicki Myron

I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth --…

— Benjamin Franklin

I think deep down, this planet yearns for the days of the British Empire again. They long once more to be treated…

— John Oliver

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York…

— John Lennon

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it…

— Benazir Bhutto

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

— Ronald Syme

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to…

— Carroll Quigley

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

— Edward Abbey

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their…

— H. Rider Haggard

Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that…

— Ryan Bingham

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and…

— Tacitus

Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.

— Leila Janah

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

— James Buchan

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

— Robert Fisk