Empire Quotes

599 Empire quotes by 452 unique authors

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you… — Martha Stewart
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. — Tacitus
I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' — Linus Torvalds
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. — Gore Vidal
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. — Voltaire
I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins. — Joss Whedon
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire… — Woodrow Wilson
I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire. — Tom Wolfe
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness… — Felix Dennis
I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why… — Felix Dennis
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels. — John Oliver
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. — Nick Hornby
We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and… — Edward Abbey
You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs… — Benjamin Franklin
Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to… — Arundhati Roy
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when… — Sarah Vowell
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of… — Francois Fenelon
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. — Voltaire
Truth is treason in the empire of lies. — Ron Paul
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too… — Gaston Leroux
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by… — Isabelle Eberhardt
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if… — Tacitus

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