Empires Quotes

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'

Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.

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

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health.

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.

Fate of empires depends on the education of youth

New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire.

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

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.

Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city.

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.

Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.

A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.

An empire is an immense egotism.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it.

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.

Can one move an empire as if it were a house?

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.