The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can — Stafford Cripps Copy Share Image
Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire! — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. — Thomas Gray 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
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
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
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
A British imperium enabled Scots to feel themselves peers of the Ebglish in a way still denied them in an island kingdom.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
Russia comes from a place of deep resentment against the West, in general, and the United States in particular. They are rapacious,… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“All empires fall, eventually.” “But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we… — Alan Green 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
Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within. — Lionel Copy Share Image
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished. — Sid Meier Copy Share Image
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
