Empires Quotes

610 Empires quotes by 468 unique authors

But Hale didn't follow. For a second he just stood and stared out over his empire. It was like he was lost in a dream… — Ally Carter
[Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet.] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,/ yet have I taken both uniform and life/ From thee. What manner of a… — Ian Doescher
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years,… — Winston Churchill
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of… — Conrad Veidt
This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers,… — John Milton
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse. — Eric Alterman
Luke [the gospel writer] screws up his dating by tactlessly mentioning events that historians are capable of independently checking. There was indeed a census under… — Richard Dawkins
Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. — Herbert Kaufman
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together. — Neil MacGregor
The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs. — Martin Luther
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played… — Winston Churchill
When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other… — Doris Lessing
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception. — Robert Kiyosaki
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the… — Orson F. Whitney
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. — Noah Feldman
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past… — Edward M. Lerner
Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away. — William Watson
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. — Joseph Chamberlain
Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires. — Paul Harris
Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires… — Jack Schwartz
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution… — John Boyd Orr
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political,… — John Boyd Orr
The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has… — Tom Winnifrith
When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction… — Javier Bardem
The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the… — Conrad Black

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