Quotes about Empire

It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back. Votes: 4

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. Votes: 4

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. Votes: 4

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. Votes: 4

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. Votes: 4

I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy. Votes: 4

Empire breeds terrorism. Votes: 3

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations. Votes: 3

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything. Votes: 3

I am now a commander of the British Empire. Votes: 3

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence. Votes: 3

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire. Votes: 3

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome. Votes: 3

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. Votes: 3

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi. Votes: 3

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss. Votes: 3

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. Votes: 3

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. Votes: 3

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. Votes: 3

The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire. Votes: 3

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city. Votes: 3

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest. Votes: 3

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night. Votes: 3

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. Votes: 3

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building. Votes: 3

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets! Votes: 3

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. Votes: 3

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time. Votes: 3

All is lost! Monks, Monks, Monks! So, now all is gone - Empire, Body, and Soul!. Votes: 3

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies. Votes: 3

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. Votes: 3

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. Votes: 3

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama's empire is called a terrorist. Votes: 3

If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... Votes: 3

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. Votes: 3

It is fundamental to socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can Votes: 3

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use. Votes: 3

I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men' and 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really like period stuff. Votes: 3

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. Votes: 3

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire. Votes: 3

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire's harshest Fist, didn't you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty's a virtue" Votes: 3

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Votes: 3

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. Votes: 3

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. Votes: 3

The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded. Votes: 3

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. Votes: 3

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. Votes: 3

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves. Votes: 3

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died. Votes: 3

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats." Votes: 3

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood. Votes: 3

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do. Votes: 3

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand. Votes: 3

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. Votes: 3

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans. Votes: 3

I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight. Votes: 3

The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States. Votes: 3

Comrade [Rafael] Correa gets it right, most of the time. This is new, 'final' offensive of the Empire in Latin America. Votes: 3

Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake. Votes: 3

Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be. Votes: 3

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again. Votes: 3

I would like to be a gang leader on 'Sons of Anarchy' or own a lemonade stand on 'Boardwalk Empire.' Votes: 3

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it. Votes: 3

I went into a Whole Foods to buy chewable vitamin C and got tackled by, like, 15 girls who watch 'Empire.' Votes: 3

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap. Votes: 3

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire. Votes: 3

I still believe that even though 'The Empire Strikes Back' is better in innumerable ways than 'Star Wars,' 'Star Wars' wins. Votes: 3

I guess the most surprising discovery was how long Gandhi remained loyal to the ideal of the British Empire, even in India. Votes: 3

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. Votes: 3

People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. Votes: 3

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross. Votes: 3

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory. Votes: 3

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire. Votes: 3

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story. Votes: 3

I've been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn't fall nearly fast enough!"-Iggy Votes: 3

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic. Votes: 3

Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation. Votes: 3

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I. Votes: 3

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette. Votes: 3

I knew a girl so ugly, I took her to the top of the Empire State building and planes started to attack her. Votes: 3

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. Votes: 3

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. Votes: 3

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus. Votes: 3

The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions. Votes: 3

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together. Votes: 3

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire Votes: 3

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small. Votes: 3

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire. Votes: 3

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect. Votes: 3

[Canada's ruling circles seek] to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire. Votes: 3

Take it from someone who's read the Wikipedia entry: this is how the Ottoman Empire was won: madden horsemen fueled by lethal jet-black coffee-mud. Votes: 3

I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet. Votes: 3

The Ottoman Empire whose sick body was not supported by a mild and regular diet, but by a powerful treatment, which continually exhausted it. Votes: 3

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China. Votes: 3

The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes On American Excess, Votes: 3

The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. Votes: 3

I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on Boardwalk Empire. Votes: 3

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long. Votes: 3

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa? Votes: 3

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity. Votes: 3

I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max. Votes: 3

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. Votes: 3

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 forged. Votes: 3

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire. Votes: 3

When I started the 'Broken Empire' trilogy, I thought it was a short story, and I didn't know the beginning, middle, or end of even that. Votes: 3

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality. Votes: 3

To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. Votes: 3

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. Votes: 3

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 perpetrated. Votes: 3

I like to put a little spin on traditional styles as I see them now, probably somewhat inspired by my current job on 'Boardwalk Empire.' Votes: 3

It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army. Votes: 3

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted. Votes: 3

The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany. Votes: 3

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth? Votes: 3

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind. Votes: 3

... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany. Votes: 3

The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at the Roman gods. Votes: 3

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one. Votes: 3

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 at stake. Votes: 3

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II. Votes: 3

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up. Votes: 3

You know, 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 empires. Votes: 3

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda. Votes: 3

Some countries of Europe have to free themselves from the US Empire. They are not going to frighten us because we are a people with dignity and sovereignty. Votes: 3

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world. Votes: 3

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings. Votes: 3

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. Votes: 3

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres. Votes: 3

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs. Votes: 3

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day. Votes: 3

While the Chinese people, as a rule, are good people, my business dealings with Communist Chinese officials have left me disturbed and concerned about the rise of the Chinese Empire. Votes: 3

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire. Votes: 3

While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire. Votes: 3

The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times. Votes: 3

I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbacca. I don't know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters. Votes: 3

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 of thousands were simply killed. Votes: 3

I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wars' fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me. Votes: 3

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day. Votes: 3

I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me. Votes: 3

After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old. Votes: 3

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. Votes: 3

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church. Votes: 3

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 say, 'So Far, so good.' Votes: 3

The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence. Votes: 3

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern. Votes: 3

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting. Votes: 3

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece. Votes: 3

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing. Votes: 3

I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama. Votes: 3

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. Votes: 3

I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. Votes: 3

I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise. Votes: 3

It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire. Votes: 3

The skyline in Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope' is made up: no, you don't get the Waldorf and the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings and a dozen other magnificent structures in one window. Votes: 3

So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate. Votes: 3

This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas. Votes: 3

As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated. Votes: 3

Han Solo.A legend of the Rebellion against the Empire. Trader, pirate, con man, and fighter extraordinaire. It was hard to believe he was real, Finn thought. Solo was history come to life. Votes: 3

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire.""And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal. Votes: 3

The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different emphases between the Eastern church and the Western church. Votes: 3

You should remember that I started as a fanboy many years ago; I saw 'A New Hope' more than twenty times in the theater. I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' nearly thirty times. Votes: 3

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size. Votes: 3

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion. Votes: 3

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once. Votes: 3

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, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour. Votes: 3

Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person's face that anything changes Votes: 3

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 but our own: The desert of the real itself. Votes: 3

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, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.' Votes: 3

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe. Votes: 3

Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free. Votes: 3

The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer. Votes: 3

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account. Votes: 3

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. Votes: 3

There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.' Votes: 3

The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end. Votes: 3

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity. Votes: 3

I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out. Votes: 3

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great! Votes: 3

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery. Votes: 3

The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. Votes: 3

I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit many crimes. Votes: 3

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM). Votes: 3

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before. Votes: 3

M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is out of date. Life goes faster than Realism, but Romanticism is always in front of Life. Votes: 3

If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth. Votes: 3

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. Votes: 2

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. Votes: 2

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. Votes: 2

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life. Votes: 2

The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be. Votes: 2

Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm. Votes: 2

In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences. Votes: 2

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire's did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV. Votes: 2

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage. Votes: 2

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. Votes: 2

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly. Votes: 2

We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we've seen happen in those countries where we helped bring about an Arab Spring that's turned into a Winter Nightmare. Votes: 2

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. Votes: 2

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman. Votes: 2

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people. Votes: 2

I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics. Votes: 2

When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment. Votes: 2

Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different. Votes: 2

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. Votes: 2

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible. Votes: 2

Every empire eventually falls. Votes: 0

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes Votes: 0

An empire is an immense egotism. Votes: 0

The American empire should be destroyed. Votes: 0

My mind to me an empire is. Votes: 0

I have my fashion empire to build. Votes: 0

The empire of custom is most mighty. Votes: 0

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit. Votes: 0

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. Votes: 0

In summer the empire of insects spreads. Votes: 0

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run. Votes: 0

I recognize no empire of this present age. Votes: 0

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire. Votes: 0

Westward the star of empire takes its way. Votes: 0

Truth is treason in the empire of lies. Votes: 0

I say one evil empire down...one to go. Votes: 0

A great empire and little minds go ill together. Votes: 0

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself. Votes: 0

In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell Votes: 0

The American empire is hovering between life and death. Votes: 0

All empire is no more than power in trust. Votes: 0

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire. Votes: 0

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire... Votes: 0

Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals. Votes: 0

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire. Votes: 0

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home. Votes: 0

Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines. Votes: 0

My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health. Votes: 0

The mighty Rain Holds the vast empire of the sky alone. Votes: 0

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. Votes: 0

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V. Votes: 0

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself. Votes: 0

Can one move an empire as if it were a house? Votes: 0

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire. Votes: 0

An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes! Votes: 0

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire. Votes: 0

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire. Votes: 0

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire Votes: 0

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire. Votes: 0

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy Votes: 0

In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. Votes: 0

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire, Votes: 0

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred. Votes: 0

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house. Votes: 0

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. Votes: 0

I see a New York that is once again the empire state. Votes: 0

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. Votes: 0

Just start. A small business can take you to the level of empire. Votes: 0

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine. Votes: 0

The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. Votes: 0

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire. Votes: 0

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. Votes: 0

Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity Votes: 0

Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire. Votes: 0

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire... Votes: 0

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. Votes: 0

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. Votes: 0

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army Votes: 0

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism Votes: 0

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself Votes: 0

In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen. Votes: 0

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. Votes: 0

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself. Votes: 0

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess. Votes: 0

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood. Votes: 0

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it. Votes: 0

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. Votes: 0

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job Votes: 0

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. Votes: 0

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall. Votes: 0

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. Votes: 0

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates. Votes: 0

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries. Votes: 0

With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West. Votes: 0

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire. Votes: 0

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars. Votes: 0

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor. Votes: 0

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. Votes: 0

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire. Votes: 0

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. Votes: 0

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist. Votes: 0

Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. Votes: 0

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. Votes: 0

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery. Votes: 0

I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career. Votes: 0

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other. Votes: 0

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals. Votes: 0

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire. Votes: 0

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. Votes: 0

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity. Votes: 0

We've created a tenfold core value protocol to make sure that we don't fall into an 'empire' attitude. Votes: 0

Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour. Votes: 0

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude. Votes: 0

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene. Votes: 0

Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began. Votes: 0

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause. Votes: 0

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs. Votes: 0

I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback. Votes: 0

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. Votes: 0

The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire. Votes: 0

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels. Votes: 0

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire Votes: 0

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire! Votes: 0

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. Votes: 0

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it. Votes: 0

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. Votes: 0

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics. Votes: 0

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. Votes: 0

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project. Votes: 0

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Votes: 0

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel. Votes: 0

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire. Votes: 0

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating. Votes: 0

En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas. Votes: 0

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now. Votes: 0

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now Votes: 0

Do not build a castle around one act of kindness; do not build an empire around one act of cruelty. Votes: 0

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. Votes: 0

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process. Votes: 0

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end. Votes: 0

A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat. Votes: 0

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart. Votes: 0

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire. Votes: 0

I will build my empire next to the sea, so I can laugh from my throne as my enemies drown. Votes: 0

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation. Votes: 0

I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible. Votes: 0

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? Votes: 0

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality. Votes: 0

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. Votes: 0

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee. Votes: 0

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire. Votes: 0

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. Votes: 0

I feel no care of coin,Well-doing is my wealth;My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health. Votes: 0

The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. Votes: 0

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. Votes: 0

I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years! Votes: 0

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock. Votes: 0

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight. Votes: 0

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence! Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her. Votes: 0

No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world. Votes: 0

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it. Votes: 0

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people. Votes: 0

You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire. Votes: 0

But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others. Votes: 0

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment. Votes: 0

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter. Votes: 0

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' Votes: 0

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition. Votes: 0

Some women born to raise a beautiful families while some women are born to build an empire from ashes and rule the rest. Votes: 0

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' Votes: 0

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. Votes: 0

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution. Votes: 0

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it. Votes: 0

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself. Votes: 0

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire. Votes: 0

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. Votes: 0

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall. Votes: 0

It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries. Votes: 0

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air! Votes: 0

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul. Votes: 0

Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there. Votes: 0

I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it. Votes: 0

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth. Votes: 0

I was very nervous about taking on an empire that was richer and far more powerful than I will ever be. It was very daunting. Votes: 0

In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions around the globe. Votes: 0

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. Votes: 0

It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders. Votes: 0

He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Votes: 0

We fought for freedom together. We had no government, no weapons to help us. We defeated such a big empire without any government, without any arms. Votes: 0

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants. Votes: 0

now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound. Votes: 0

You develop a kind of admiration for criminal genius and ruthless efficiency, and you forget that the criminal empire is built on human pain and suffering. Votes: 0

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole. Votes: 0

A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts. Votes: 0

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow. Votes: 0

Saladin had the same immediate successor as all the great Muslim leaders of his time: civil war. Barely had he died that his empire was dismembered. Votes: 0

In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind. Votes: 0

E? loquence quipersuade par douceur, non par empire, en tyran, non en roi. Eloquence should persuade gently, not by force or like a tyrant or king. Votes: 0

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men. Votes: 0

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion. Votes: 0

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies instead of the land of corpses. Votes: 0

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man. Votes: 0

If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies, instead of the land of corpses. Votes: 0

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come. Votes: 0

I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion. Votes: 0

His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon. Votes: 0

A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men! Votes: 0

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire. Votes: 0

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth. Votes: 0

When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher. Votes: 0

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory and to save an empire. Votes: 0

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless. Votes: 0

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire. Votes: 0

Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire. Votes: 0

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites ... Votes: 0

The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires. Votes: 0

Sanford and Son is more than just a name. It's a condition, a dynasty, an empire. This here is the finest pile of junk of the world. Votes: 0

There is an erroneous tendency to view empire-building by rulers from urban-agrarian kingdoms (Alexander, for example) as strategic genius, while treating nomad imperial conquests like natural disasters. Votes: 0

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire. Votes: 0

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard. Votes: 0

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.' Votes: 0

I ask myself whether Russia is moving in the direction of democracy. I don't believe it is! Bit by bit, Russia is slipping back into an authoritarian empire. Votes: 0

My heart's made of goldMy soul is pure steelLoved ones shall riseEnemies will kneelI soothe with water, attack with fireFor I am the master of my own empire. Votes: 0

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism. Votes: 0

But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"? Votes: 0

Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it. Votes: 0

If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no inclination to change employments. Votes: 0

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate. Votes: 0

One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.' Votes: 0

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism. Votes: 0

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. Votes: 0

All through the years of the Soviet empire, its Politburo held 'elections.' Of course, calling something an election and actually having it be an election are different things. Votes: 0

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back. Votes: 0

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers. Votes: 0

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world. Votes: 0

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor. Votes: 0

The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population. Votes: 0

Resurrection hope turned those who believed it into a counter-empire, an alternative society that knew the worst that tyrants could do and knew that the true God had the answer. Votes: 0

Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture. Votes: 0

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. Votes: 0

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself. Votes: 0

America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory. Votes: 0

People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think we are an empire any longer after all. Votes: 0

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire. Votes: 0

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. Votes: 0

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn. Votes: 0

No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne. Votes: 0

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you Votes: 0

What I am trying to figure out in my preface is how Romans could operate without the simple items - maps - that are necessary for running such a huge empire. Votes: 0

Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection. Votes: 0

If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers. Votes: 0

America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible. Votes: 0

People [in US] are starting to rethink this idea of empire, this idea of the United States being this superpower, the hegemon, is not working, and we can't afford it anymore. Votes: 0

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write. Votes: 0

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections. Votes: 0

The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels. Votes: 0

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 reading I would spurn them all. Votes: 0

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. Votes: 0

America must raise an empire of permanent duration, supported upon the grand pillars of Truth, Freedom, and Religion, encouraged by the smiles of Justice and defended by her own patriotic sons. Votes: 0

Potentially, America is really the greatest, but it's not yet, I don't think. It's too much like an old-fashioned empire, waving the stick and dropping too many bombs on too many people. Votes: 0

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it. Votes: 0

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 reporter and the power of a novelist. Votes: 0

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius. Votes: 0

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them. Votes: 0

[Donald] Trump`s hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts of interest at Trump`s sprawling multinational business empire. Votes: 0

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world. Votes: 0

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire. Votes: 0

The Indian education system, like the Indian bureaucratic system, is Victorian and still in the 19th century. Our schools are still designed to produce clerks for an empire that does not exist anymore. Votes: 0

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire. Votes: 0

With the advent of Trump Tower Live, the campaign`s new nightly broadcast, streamed over Facebook, rumors are once again, swirling of a potential Trump media empire to be launched after the election. Votes: 0

The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not. Votes: 0

Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government. Votes: 0

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth? Votes: 0

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish. Votes: 0

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again. Votes: 0

What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire. Votes: 0

When Alexander had subdued the world, and wept that none were left to dispute his arms, his tears were an involuntary tribute to a monarchy that he knew not, man's empire over himself. Votes: 0

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire. Votes: 0

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most. Votes: 0

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. Votes: 0

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids. Votes: 0

The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been, Votes: 0

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained? Votes: 0

Allah Himself has ordered that any person, any nation, any empire whose evil outweighs its good, there is a force in our universe that moves that individual, that nation, that empire out of existence. Votes: 0

The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too. Votes: 0

The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing. Votes: 0

I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring to see people snub their noses at the American empire and succeed. Votes: 0

But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit. Votes: 0

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. Votes: 0

It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well. Votes: 0

When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from. Votes: 0

When I started Virgin from a basement flat in West London, I did not set out to build a business empire. I set out to create something I enjoyed that would pay the bills. Votes: 0

The monastic folks have the spirit of being in the world but not of the world, sort of peculiar people who have gone to the desert to live on the margins of the empire. Votes: 0

The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God. Votes: 0

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority. Votes: 0

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration. Votes: 0

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war? Votes: 0

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country. Votes: 0

The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be Votes: 0

What have I become?My sweetest friend; everyone I know goes away in the end.And you could have it all:my empire of dirt.I will let you down.I will make you hurt. Votes: 0

When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians. Votes: 0

I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right. Votes: 0