Empires Quotes
610 Empires quotes by 468 unique authors
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Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.
— Leila Janah
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Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do…
— Barbara Tuchman
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The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered…
— James Risen
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The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of…
— Unknown Author
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But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination…
— Isabelle Eberhardt
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Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it,…
— Robert Collier
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I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.
— Sid Meier
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I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.
— Kublai Khan
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If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of…
— John C. Wright
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The famous Apollonius being very early at Vespasian's gate, and finding him stirring, from thence conjectured that he was worthy to govern an empire, and…
— Nicolas Caussin
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I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for…
— Anne-Marie Duff
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Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies of the resurrected…
— Herbert W. Armstrong
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The empire of custom is most mighty.
— Publilius Syrus
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Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
— Elihu Palmer
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The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a…
— Philip K. Dick
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If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.
— John Lennon
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I have my fashion empire to build.
— Ozwald Boateng
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Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.
— Publilius Syrus
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All empires are created of blood and fire.
— Pablo Escobar
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This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His…
— Jerry Bridges
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I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!
— Elif Batuman
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There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes…
— Glenn Greenwald
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You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a…
— Thomas Hutchinson
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
— Edmund Burke
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It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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