Empires Quotes

610 Empires quotes by 468 unique authors

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. — Aristotle
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story… — C.S. Lewis
Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when… — Sarah Vowell
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. — John Gresham Machen
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. — Milan Kundera
If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the empire were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of… — Francois Fenelon
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. — Voltaire
Truth is treason in the empire of lies. — Ron Paul
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too… — Gaston Leroux
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy… — Frank Herbert
Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by… — Isabelle Eberhardt
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if… — Tacitus
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his… — Napoleon Bonaparte
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"… — Edward Said
Can one move an empire as if it were a house? — Ismail KadarÃ©
One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it… — J M Coetzee
Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives… — Gerard Way
You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear… — Neil Gaiman
To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing,… — Cornel West
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of… — John Updike
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons,… — Orson Scott Card
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the… — Albert Camus
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire… — Douglas Adams

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