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 Copy Share Image
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake. — Lord Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists may have created a personalized Jesus we don't even recognize, but the liberals' Jesus, too, is an individualized Jesus who… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has been known… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the… — John Gorrie Copy Share Image
The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Everest has a special place in all of our imaginations. For centuries, Everest was a little bit like the moon. It was… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
South Africa, with US support, after the fall of the Portuguese empire, invaded Angola and Mozambique to establish their own puppet regime… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself,… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The spread of democracy is a wonderful thing-it is a necessary foundation for peace-and it can happen. But it cannot be advanced… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?"… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations… — Sangharakshita Copy Share Image
The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children. — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of… — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of… — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the… — Rudrangshu Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback. — Kublai Khan Copy Share Image
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
