Empires Quotes

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.

All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres.

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

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

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.

I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.

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 Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires.

Liberals were just as engaged and using the rhetoric of a sort of a battle with the Soviets and with Communism in general, with an evil empire.

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.

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

Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour.

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.

I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion.

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

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.'

If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.