Empire Quotes

599 Empire quotes by 452 unique authors

I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all… — Ken Loach
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in… — Doris Lessing
The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrongâ€”it is obscene. — Dinesh D'Souza
The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I… — Eldridge Cleaver
It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All… — Benjamin Disraeli
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. — Dean Acheson
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire… — Jean Baudrillard
The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines… — Romano Guardini
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly,… — Grant Morrison
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility. — Stephen Baxter
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him… — John McGahern
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. — Thomas Gray
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been… — Pope Leo XIII
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. — Publilius Syrus
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall… — Dave Cook
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask… — Chalmers Johnson
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace,… — Edward Gibbon
Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic… — David Harsanyi

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