Utterly absorbing… If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement… Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your… — Linda Goodman Copy Share Image
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead… — Harris L Coulter Copy Share Image
It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character – not to preach doctrines, sing… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President Obama ... is stepping once again -… — Hisham Melhem Copy Share Image
The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand. — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
What I am trying to figure out in my preface is how Romans could operate without the simple items - maps -… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be… — Wellington Webb Copy Share Image
I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires… — Michael Foot Copy Share Image
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
