Empires Quotes · Page 7

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

— Gad Saad

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.

— Qin Shi Huang

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

— Robert Wyatt

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

— Ezra Pound

I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

— E-40

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

— Edward Rutherfurd

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

— Tobsha Learner

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

— Robert Payne

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

— Tim Wu

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and…

— Francois Fenelon

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

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the…

— Thomas Hutchinson

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America.

— Andre Vltchek

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated…

— Gary Oldman

It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because…

— John Tillotson

Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If…

— Ronald Reagan

Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when…

— Ben Stiller

I am sorry, but if you believe the newest death of OBL, you're stupid. Just think to yourself-they paraded Saddam's dead sons…

— Cindy Sheehan

Many analysts compare Turkey with countries in the Middle East, but I think we need to compare it with Russia. Both countries…

— Elif Safak

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot…

— Benjamin Franklin

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke…

— Lord Randolph Churchill

In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most…

— Edward Gibbon

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

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

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

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

For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War…

— Norman Mailer

Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high…

— James Berardinelli

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that…

— John Pilger

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

— Daniel Ellsberg

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

— Sallust

I think that running empires as a way of ordering the world is a flawed model.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

— Anonymous

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

— Marisha Pessl

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

— Cardinal Richelieu

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

— Marianne Faithfull

“Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.”

— Janet Wallach