Empires Quotes

610 Empires quotes by 468 unique authors

Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest… — George Berkeley
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular… — June Jordan
Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The… — Hector Berlioz
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may… — George Orwell
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the… — Noam Chomsky
Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall. — Marisha Pessl
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of… — Orison Swett Marden
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War… — Vicki Myron
I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little… — Jack Handey
America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and… — Nathanael Greene
I remember everything What have I become? My sweetest friend? E veryone I know goes away in the end You could have it all My… — Johnny Cash
Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate… — Winston Churchill
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. — Edward Bond
While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the… — John Burgoyne
Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different,… — Simon Schama
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the… — Abraham Kuyper
The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand. — Isoroku Yamamoto
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu
In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an,… — Jim Al-Khalili
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum… — John Ralston Saul
North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit… — Frank Schaeffer
I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to… — Heidi Baker
In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But… — Ben Goldacre
Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no… — John Amery

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