Empires Quotes

610 Empires quotes by 468 unique authors

I see a New York that is once again the empire state. — Carl Paladino
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul, and… — Mahatma Gandhi
An empire is an immense egotism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her… — Henry David Thoreau
In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. — Winston Churchill
The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... ''Beware of me,'' it says,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities. — Michel de Montaigne
Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an… — Virginia Woolf
When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out,… — Langston Hughes
The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere.… — Fergie
Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain… — John Milton
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of… — Claude Levi-Strauss
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire. — Michael Mandelbaum
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies,… — Michael Mandelbaum
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world.… — Russell Kirk
Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one… — Neal Gabler
The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet… — Boris Brasol
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities -… — Nancy Pearcey
Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. — Robert Trout
I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it. — Chris Messina
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force.… — Boris Yeltsin
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. — Robert D. Kaplan
My mind to me an empire is. — Robert Southwell
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world… — Cecil Rhodes

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