Empire Quotes

599 Empire quotes by 452 unique authors

Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top… — Martin Cruz Smith
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a… — John Knox
Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in action and non-action… — Anandamayi Ma
All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying… — James Connolly
American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need… — Niall Ferguson
In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for… — Cecil Rhodes
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses,… — Tacitus
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied… — Samuel Johnson
The Maharishi had invited us all to go to India to his ashram in the Indian Himalaya. We were there studying meditation for two and… — Pattie Boyd
The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of… — Robert Manne
The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel. — Walter Brueggemann
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke… — Garet Garrett
Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal… — Garet Garrett
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died. — Adrian Goldsworthy
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Confession: When I went to see The Empire Strikes Back I found myself glancing at my watch. The Force is with us, indeed, and a… — Vincent Canby
In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire. — Genghis Khan
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms,… — Edward Everett
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. — Ezra Stiles
In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay… — Charles C. Mann
During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by Wall Street and… — Thomas Naylor
In other words, the problem of empire-building is essentially mystical. It must somehow foster the impression that a man is great in the degree that… — Felix Morley
There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really… — Taylor Hanson
If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence! — Tom DeLonge

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