Empires Quotes

Empires Quote of the day

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

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.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.

The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.

Truth is treason in the empire of lies.

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'

I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

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

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

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

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

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.'

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

The American empire should be destroyed.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

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

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.