Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cardinal Richelieu

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

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.

Daniel Pinkwater

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

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.

Dana Gioia

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

Donald Rumsfeld

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

Winston Churchill

All great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

Sallust

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

Stockwell Day

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of.

Pythagoras

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An empire is an immense egotism.

Stafford Cripps

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

Suzy Menkes

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

Tony Benn

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

Tom Wolfe

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

Steven Erikson

You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue…

Strobe Talbott

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

Joseph Chamberlain

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

Rainbow Rowell

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Paul Verlaine

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

Robert Trout

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

George Will

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.

Esther Hicks

You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved. That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again - you see it all the time - because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status.

Hugo Chavez

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

Hugo Chavez

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

John Boyd Orr

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

Kublai Khan

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

James G. Stavridis

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

Eric S. Raymond

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

Joseph Chamberlain

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.