Empires Quotes

610 Empires quotes by 468 unique authors

Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world.… — Arthur C. Clarke
If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a… — Michel de Montaigne
The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to… — Toni Morrison
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally… — Noah Webster
Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to… — Ronald Reagan
Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned… — Jean Paul
...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire. — David Irving
For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly… — Norman Mailer
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't… — Quentin Crisp
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the… — William Blake
The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little… — Barbara Amiel
His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than… — Barack Obama
Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world… — Robert M. Pirsig
If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion… — Winston Churchill
It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East,… — Winston Churchill
I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of… — Winston Churchill
One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be… — Winston Churchill
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered… — Winston Churchill
In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few… — Winston Churchill
Part of Sykes's motive was rooted in religiosity. A devout Catholic, he regarded a return of the ancient tribe of Israel to the Holy Land… — Scott Anderson
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy — Woodrow Wilson
Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There is something oddly… — Robert Fisk
When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn't set out to build a business… — Richard Branson
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an… — Robert D. Kaplan

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