Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Cardinal Richelieu

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire...

Takeru Kobayashi

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

Edward Said

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Edward Said

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.

Dana Gioia

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Mark Romanek

You can have it all, my empire of dirt. I will let you down.

Ian Shepherdson

It is disappointing in the wake of the huge rise in the Empire State survey -- the indexes are usually at similar levels,

Kate Hutton

I would say it's a very typical Imperial Valley swarm.

Jane Fonda

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

Pankaj Mishra

Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.

Angus King

I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.

James Henry Breasted

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

George Orwell

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

Jerry Rubin

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

Tommy Douglas

We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.