Empire Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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

I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy

Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

Dark times call for dark choices. Choose me.

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.

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

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

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

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

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.

The Queen of England gave me the honor of the Order of the British Empire for working with children.

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

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.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.

Try not to waste your entire life working just to earn a paycheck. Seek to discover what your true passion in life is, and start working on turning it into an empire of your own.

Stop being overly materialistic, and start building your empire. Your future self would surely love you if you do so.

Stop talking about how you will build an empire, and start building it right at this very moment. Time never waits for anyone to feel perfectly ready.

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.

Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you.

Fear could break a line faster than any enemy charge.

We can’t be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself.

We are not here to build our empire only but also to help people discover the kingdom of God

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.

...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.

We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up.

As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives.