The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night. — Ken Dodd Copy Share Image
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire. — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
I will build my empire next to the sea, so I can laugh from my throne as my enemies drown. — Bray Wyatt 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
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
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 think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they… — David Korten Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack… — Alcibiades 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
Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. — Herbert Kaufman Copy Share Image
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire. — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
