Empires Quote by Albert Pike

“They spark a fire in the compound Then run and hide in the underground, And let the helpless burn on the ground.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers…

— H.G. Wells

“To escape from fire men will plunge into boiling water.”

— Ernest Bramah

“Great men are forged in fire. 'Tis the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.”

— Anonymous

“They had been at the center of something vast, but as usual with the affairs of the Powers, no one knew quite what had…

— Vernor Vinge

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which…

— Martin Cruz Smith

The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with…

— Friedrich Engels

“Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.”

— Steven Moffat

“The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his…

— Sun Tzu

“War, building like methane in the chamber of a mine: any day could come the spark.”

— Taylor Brown

“we think that if rail-fences are pulled down, and stone-walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our…

— Henry David Thoreau

“One last unexploded mine remains, its exact location unknown and its hidden potency serving as something of a symbol of the Great War’s underlying…

— Joseph E. Persico