Empires Quotes
610 Empires quotes by 468 unique authors
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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
— Martin Scorsese
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Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect…
— Rob Sheffield
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I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
— Steven Spielberg
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I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire…
— Steven Spielberg
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I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you…
— Martha Stewart
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
— Tacitus
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I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'
— Linus Torvalds
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
— Gore Vidal
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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
— Voltaire
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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which…
— Josiah Warren
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I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins.
— Joss Whedon
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire…
— Woodrow Wilson
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I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.
— Tom Wolfe
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America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness…
— Felix Dennis
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why…
— Felix Dennis
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Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.
— John Oliver
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Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers…
— Howard Rheingold
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I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
— Nick Hornby
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and…
— Edward Abbey
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You can see the most beautiful things from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. I read somewhere that people on the street are…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock…
— Arundhati Roy
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I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Colorful demonstrations and weekend marches are vital but alone are not powerful enough to stop wars. Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to…
— Arundhati Roy
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Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and…
— Frank Herbert
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