The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, -… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We… — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the… — John McCain 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
Both the Eurozone and European Union is like the end of the Roman Empire. It's already started. In a few years' time… — Geert Wilders 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
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
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
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
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
It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of… — Laurent Dubois Copy Share Image
If farmers and blacksmiths could win independence from an empire if immigrants could leave behind everything they knew for a better life… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one,… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its… — Timothy Levitch Copy Share Image
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech Copy Share Image
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work… — George Washington Copy Share Image
All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance… — Irshad Manji Copy Share Image
There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist. — Seth Gordon Copy Share Image
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
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