The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire. — Ze'ev Jabotinsky Copy Share Image
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. — Edward Thorndike 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
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
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
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to… — Chris Avellone Copy Share Image
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India. — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded… — Hannibal Copy Share Image
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration,… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
Travelling the railways of Europe with a century-old guidebook can be disconcerting: fares, food, and drink seem shockingly expensive compared with what… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond… — William Hazlitt 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
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
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
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
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
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
God never gives dominion to any creature which has not received his image. His image is love. Other things belong to God;… — George Matheson 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