Empire Quotes

599 Empire quotes by 452 unique authors

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered… — Winston Churchill
Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land… — Scott Anderson
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy — Woodrow Wilson
Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There is something oddly… — Robert Fisk
When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business… — Richard Branson
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an… — Robert D. Kaplan
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but… — Edward Said
The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism — Chris Hedges
It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries. — Glenn Greenwald
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. — Winston Churchill
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of… — Chris Hedges
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obamaâ€™s empire is called a terrorist. — Robert Fisk
The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons… — Adrian Tchaikovsky
There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet… — Michael Shannon
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save… — Emile de Girardin
A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs… — Thomas Carlyle
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory… — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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