Empires Quotes

610 Empires quotes by 468 unique authors

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. — Peter Jennings
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it… — Lyndon B. Johnson
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. — Garrison Keillor
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and… — James Larkin
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. — Doris Lessing
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all… — Doris Lessing
I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run. — John Malkovich
I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting. — Sienna Miller
My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player… — Nicki Minaj
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. — Baron de Montesquieu
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. — Baron de Montesquieu
Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the… — Viggo Mortensen
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when… — Benito Mussolini
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead.… — Henri Nouwen
I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long. — Gary Oldman
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. — Pythagoras
Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. — Don Rickles
You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire. — Pat Robertson
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev… — Mitt Romney
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in… — Salman Rushdie
As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please… — Jerry Saltz
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on… — Justin Sane
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region… — Jose Saramago

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