Imperial Quotes

119 Imperial quotes by 106 unique authors

The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system. — Noam Chomsky
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and… — Ambrose Bierce
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I ever looked at. — Ezra Pound
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies. — Bertrand Russell
There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went. — Ani DiFranco
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since… — Walter Russell Mead
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital. — David Frum
The Imperial Household, as represented by the Emperor, has been praying for the welfare of the people while nurturing harmonious relationship with them. Based on… — Yoshiko Sakurai
You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout. — Allen West
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf,… — Carl Sandburg
[I]t is easy to regard the mind and the body as two slaves trained to obey the imperial soul.... [I]n this trinity of soul, mind,… — Edward Everett Hale
Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family — Tacitus
The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet… — Boris Brasol
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get… — Amy Waldman
The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and… — Bob Hope
Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco", which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed… — Emperor Norton
I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue… — Piers Corbyn
It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought… — John Amery
Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves… — Marc Chagall
The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live… — Marcus Aurelius
These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and… — Winston Churchill
But Greece and her foundations are Built below the tide of war, Based on the crystalline sea Of thought and its eternity; Her citizens, imperial… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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