Empire Quotes
599 Empire quotes by 452 unique authors
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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And…
— Alcibiades
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It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the…
— Moshe Dayan
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The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
— Bernard DeVoto
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O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up…
— Abraham Coles
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire…
— J. B. Priestley
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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years…
— Honore de Balzac
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Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay…
— Anna Quindlen
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Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater…
— Cyrus the Great
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O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire.…
— Cyrus the Great
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With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That…
— Genghis Khan
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In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a viceroy from London…
— Webster Tarpley
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We do not seek the unanimity that comes to those who water down all issues to the lowest common denominator - or to those who…
— John F. Kennedy
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We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will -…
— Ron Suskind
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... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any…
— Franz Halder
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I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself
— Peter the Great
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It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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The New World Order is a more palatable name for the Anglo American world empire. It's the planetary domination of London, New York, Washington over…
— Alex Jones
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We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And the standard of…
— Ron Paul
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Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in the…
— Murray Rothbard
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I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.
— Paul Verlaine
Who Wrote These Empire Quotes
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