Empires Quotes

610 Empires quotes by 468 unique authors

The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I… — Eldridge Cleaver
It has been said that the people of this country are deeply interested in the humanitarian and philanthropic considerations involved in [the Eastern Question]. All… — Benjamin Disraeli
The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come. — Joseph Chamberlain
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. — Dean Acheson
It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread… — Iain Banks
It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire… — Jean Baudrillard
The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines… — Romano Guardini
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly,… — Grant Morrison
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility. — Stephen Baxter
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him… — John McGahern
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. — Thomas Gray
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been… — Pope Leo XIII
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. — Publilius Syrus
He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall… — Dave Cook
Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask… — Chalmers Johnson
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long peace,… — Edward Gibbon
Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic… — David Harsanyi
It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can — Stafford Cripps
Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once… — Wilhelm II
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is… — Paul von Hindenburg
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever… — Arthur Koestler
When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously,… — Ken Robinson
On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds… — Eliot Engel
When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to… — Margaret Thatcher

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