Empires Quotes · Page 16

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in…

— Jeff Sharlet

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal…

— Cory Doctorow

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

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

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

— Edward Abbey

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

There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of…

— Alan Moore

There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is…

— Saharon Shelah

Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British…

— David Knopfler

Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained,…

— David Harsanyi

Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a…

— Winston Churchill

For we have come by different ways to this place... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine…

— Robert James Waller

I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which…

— William Ellery Channing

The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,…

— Edward Gibbon

Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at…

— Garry Kasparov

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack…

— Alcibiades

So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely…

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Thomas Naylor

I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and…

— Isabel Allende

It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.…

— Edward Gibbon

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame…

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Leila Janah

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

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

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

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

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this…

— John Burgoyne

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big…

— Johan Galtung

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

— Filip Dewinter

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip,…

— Plutarch