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 have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use. — Qin Shi Huang Copy Share Image
“Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of… — Paul Kriwaczek Copy Share Image
It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the… — Daniel Fried 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
Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Kelsier smiled. 'It means that you, Vin, are a very special person. You have a power that most high noblemen envy. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover… — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible… — Colin Powell 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
I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to… — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
