If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Some countries of Europe have to free themselves from the US Empire. They are not going to frighten us because we are… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of… — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to… — Coolio Copy Share Image
This is an age of science. ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an… — Wickliffe Rose Copy Share Image
My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The true danger is the expansion of empire and the huge diversion of public budgets overseas at the neglect of domestic necessities,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies… — Herbert W. Armstrong Copy Share Image
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
See yonder thin column of smoke curling up through the woods from some invisible farmhouse, the standard raised over some rural homestead…… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He… — John Adams Copy Share Image
[Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet.] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,/ yet have I taken both uniform and life/ From thee. What… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
I set out with a perfect distrust of my own abilities, a total renunciation of every speculation of my own, and with… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress, it doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. — Louis XVIII of France Copy Share Image
O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush,… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
We fought for freedom together. We had no government, no weapons to help us. We defeated such a big empire without any… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
I ask myself whether Russia is moving in the direction of democracy. I don't believe it is! Bit by bit, Russia is… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it… — Attila the Hun Copy Share Image
The future of Cuba is one earned by a country that has resisted for over 50 years against the most powerful empire… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that… — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
![“His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire.” quote by Bob Colacello](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a2/bob-colacello-23284_america_his-andy-warhol-films-were-way-ahead-of_2713446.jpg)
![“[Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet.] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,/ yet have I taken both uniform and life/ From thee. What manner of a man wert thou?/ A man of inf'nite jest or cruelty?/ A man with helpmate and with children too?/ A man who hath his Empire serv'd with pride?/ A man…” quote by Ian Doescher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/622/ian-doescher-14274_children_luke-holding-stormtrooper-helmet-alas-po_2780099.jpg)
