Empires Quotes
610 quotes by 477 authors
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such…
— Margaret Atwood
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the…
— Amelia Barr
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The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
— Dave Barry
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I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.
— Victoria Beckham
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice…
— William Blake
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved…
— William Jennings Bryan
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The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
— James Buchan
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When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
— Julie Burchill
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
— Edmund Burke
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America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions…
— George W. Bush
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
— Samuel Butler
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And…
— Benjamin Carson
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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
— Hugo Chavez
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I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The…
— Hugo Chavez
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
— Winston Churchill
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When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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