Empires Quotes

All empires are created of blood and fire.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting - corruption and favoritism, mostly- endemic to the system.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

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

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.'

And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended.

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

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

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.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

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.

The American empire should be destroyed.

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

We still haven't gotten the message; we still don't see that it's bad. And then we copy everything about their [Roman Empire] structure. I mean Paul Bremer was the proconsul of Iraq. We're still using ancient terminology, we still have Senators and we have an Emperor, almost.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

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

The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.

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.

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

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