Empires Quotes

610 Empires quotes by 468 unique authors

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the… — Muriel Rukeyser
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they… — Isaac Rosenberg
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. — Maureen Dowd
You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue… — Steven Erikson
Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top… — Martin Cruz Smith
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a… — John Knox
Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in action and non-action… — Anandamayi Ma
All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying… — James Connolly
American Empire- it is an empire that lacks the drive to export its capital, its people and its culture to those backward regions which need… — Niall Ferguson
In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for… — Cecil Rhodes
In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses,… — Tacitus
Sleep is a state in which a great part of every life is passed. No animal has yet been discovered, whose existence is not varied… — Samuel Johnson
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. — Samuel Johnson
We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or pay for… — Miriam Toews
The Maharishi had invited us all to go to India to his ashram in the Indian Himalaya. We were there studying meditation for two and… — Pattie Boyd
The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of… — Robert Manne
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland
The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel. — Walter Brueggemann
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires. — Sallust
All empires become arrogant. It is their nature. — Edward Rutherfurd
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke… — Garet Garrett
Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal… — Garet Garrett
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole… — Joseph Warren

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