Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. — Chris Johnson Copy Share Image
Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“When empires fall, what becomes of the Queen? Everything will burn, and so will she.” — Katie Jennings Copy Share Image
It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires… — Mickey Rourke Copy Share Image
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee.… — Neil Gaiman 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
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. — Winston Churchill 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 heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback. — Kublai Khan 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
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“erhaps it was the difference in age between the countries—America with its expansive youth, building all those drive-in movie theaters and cowboy… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The guy, Magic Johnson, built a business empire and you don't do that just because you have a pretty smile. The guy… — Mychal Thompson Copy Share Image
National Defense A strong USA defense brought down the Soviet Union. It was Ronald Reagan - first in a speech at Notre… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
![“If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going to rule by fear -- but you don't know what their endgame is. You don't know what Leia is princess of. You don't yet understand who Jabba the Hutt is, even though there is a…” quote by J. J. Abrams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/940/j-j-abrams-3542_empires_if-you-watch-the-first-star-wars-movie-y_2180467.jpg)
