Top Empires Quotes Collection

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Image of 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.
- Edward Said
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Image of Daniel Pinkwater
If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.
- Daniel Pinkwater
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Image of Cardinal Richelieu
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.
- Cardinal Richelieu
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Image of Mike Myers
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.
- Mike Myers
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Image of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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Image of Aleksandr Dugin
The American empire should be destroyed.
- Aleksandr Dugin
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Image of Robert Fisk
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.
- Robert Fisk
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Image of Adrian Goldsworthy
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
- Adrian Goldsworthy
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Image of Joseph Chamberlain
The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.
- Joseph Chamberlain
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Image of Isabelle Eberhardt
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.
- Isabelle Eberhardt
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Image of Leila Janah
Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.
- Leila Janah
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Image of Suzy Menkes
The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.
- Suzy Menkes
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Image of Kublai Khan
I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.
- Kublai Khan
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Image of L. Jon Wertheim
Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour.
- L. Jon Wertheim
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Image of John McGahern
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
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Image of 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
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Image of Napoleon Bonaparte
It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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Image of 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.
- George Will
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Image of Tony Benn
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
- Tony Benn
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Image of Walter Scott
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
- Walter Scott
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Image of Garth Nix
While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each other to become the next emperor. And this contest includes actually killing each other, doing anything they can get away with to each other.
- Garth Nix
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Image of Thomas de Quincey
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
- Thomas de Quincey
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Image of Donald Rumsfeld
We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.
- Donald Rumsfeld
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Image of Rainbow Rowell
Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines.
- Rainbow Rowell
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Image of 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.
- Esther Hicks
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Image of Dar Williams
The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
- Dar Williams
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Image of John Updike
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
- John Updike
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Image of Pythagoras
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
- Pythagoras
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Image of Joseph Brodsky
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore.
- Joseph Brodsky
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Image of Hugo Chavez
Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!
- Hugo Chavez
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Image of Pat Buchanan
Empire breeds terrorism.
- Pat Buchanan
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Image of Sallust
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
- Sallust
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Image of Publilius Syrus
The empire of custom is most mighty.
- Publilius Syrus
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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
An empire is an immense egotism.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Image of Dana Gioia
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.
- Dana Gioia
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Image of Edward Gibbon
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon
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Image of Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!
- Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Image of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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