Quotes about empires
empires misery humans
The history of empires is the history of human misery. Edward Gibbon
empires roles found
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. Dean Acheson
empires poet modern
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. Dana Gioia
empires sometimes lost
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire... Cardinal Richelieu
empires study imperialism
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
empires world plunder
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.
empires dishes ifs
If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire. Daniel Pinkwater
empires
We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic. Donald Rumsfeld
empires drains british
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels. John Oliver
empires nations passed small
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. Joseph Chamberlain
empires holy
It is neither holy, Roman or an empire. Napoleon Bonaparte
empires modus-operandi provoking
Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.
empires rebel hackers
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. Eric S. Raymond
empires window building
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.' John McGahern
empires vibrations financial
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. Esther Hicks
empires afghanistan graveyard
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires. James G. Stavridis
empires holy regimes
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. George Will
empires foundation imperfect
[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect. George Washington
empires world said
Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire! Hugo Chavez
empires menace planets
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
empires fallen five internal last six thousand wars waxed
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. John Boyd Orr
empires conquer heard
I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback. Kublai Khan
empires ends decadence
I am the Empire at the end of the decadence. Paul Verlaine
empires aspire
I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself. Lauren Conrad
empires
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. Pythagoras
empires underestimate kind
Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires. Leila Janah
empires wake-up british
Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time. Oswald Mosley
empires terrorism
Empire breeds terrorism. Pat Buchanan
empires born ifs
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore... Joseph Brodsky
empires holy roman-empire
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss. Mike Myers
empires thrones weight
Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. John Armstrong
empires eternity responsible
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity. Martin Luther King, Jr.
empires customs
The empire of custom is most mighty. Publilius Syrus