Empires Quotes · Page 8

The mighty Rain Holds the vast empire of the sky alone.

— William C. Bryant

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

— Edward Young

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

— Eric S. Raymond

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

— Ovid

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire

— Toni Braxton

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

— Edward Thorndike

Peace is for the women, and the weak. Empires are forged by war.

— Agamemnon

There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

— Chuck Berry

People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon,…

— Peter Kuznick

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

— Emma Thompson

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

— Suzy Menkes

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

— Adrian Goldsworthy

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part…

— Edmund Burke

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which…

— Arthur Koestler

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims…

— Frank Herbert

“It has toppled empires and caused destruction. It is responsible for the worst tragedies and numerous maladies. Yet it is longed for,…

— A.M. Sohma

The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It’s a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they…

— Gary Kurtz

My arguments for liberal empire or whatever you want to call it - hegemony, primacy, you name it - are really activated…

— Niall Ferguson

We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of…

— Terence McKenna

The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was…

— Henry A. Kissinger

We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen…

— Haile Selassie

The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which,…

— Edward Gibbon

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what…

— Al Sharpton

American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward…

— Niall Ferguson

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress…

— Barack Obama

The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides…

— Romano Guardini

Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the…

— William Golding

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of…

— Edward Gibbon

If you watch the first [Star Wars] movie, you don't actually know exactly what the Empire is trying to do. They're going…

— J. J. Abrams

The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the…

— Edward Said

When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-,…

— Duncan Roy

... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the…

— Edward Said

The American empire is hovering between life and death.

— Mohsen Rezaee

The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.

— Ze'ev Jabotinsky

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

— Mencius

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

— Lauren Conrad

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job

— Nicole Polizzi

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire,

— Hugo Chavez

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

— Peter the Great

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

— Fred Dibnah