Top 61 Empires I Quotes
#1. I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.
Colin Quinn
#2. Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
Jack Schwartz
#3. I stamp out vast empires. I crush palaces in my rigid hands. I harden my heart against churches.
I blot out cemetaries. I feed the people with stinging nettles. I resurrect madness. I thrust my naked sword between the ribs of the world. I murder the world!
Harry Crosby
#4. I hate the corpses of empires, they stink as nothing else. They stink so badly that I cannot believe that even in life they were healthy.
Rebecca West
#5. America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
Felix Dennis
#6. 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.
J.I. Packer
#7. I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
Isaac Rosenberg
#8. If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!
Tom DeLonge
#9. I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!
Elif Batuman
#10. I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Martin Scorsese
#12. Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.
Jamie Zawinski
#13. 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. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.
Doris Lessing
#14. I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
Steven Spielberg
#15. 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.
Immortal Technique
#16. Father, I serve the Messiah, the Christ. Not any Caesar. His kingdom is not of this world, and no man need fight for it. All empires will pass away, but Christ lives. He is love and peace, and his kingdom will last forever.
David Holdsworth
#17. I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.
Emma Thompson
#18. [T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
George Washington
#19. I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.
Kesha
#20. You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
Violet Trefusis
#22. A fiery little cat you are, Caecelia. Like a lioness in heat, oh how you bloom.
Sai Marie Johnson
#23. Keep the guests company, and mind your asses! Stay out of the hall before my chamber!
Sai Marie Johnson
#24. Well, normally I'm against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big. - Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
Pete Seeger
#25. 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.
Taylor Hanson
#26. I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.
Niall Ferguson
#27. 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.
King Hussein I
#29. I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.
Don McCullin
#30. I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.
Kublai Khan
#31. I have learned so many things over the long years," he whispered ... "I've taken tribute from sovereigns and witnessed the end of empires. But you are my best teacher.
Thea Harrison
#32. I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.
Cao Cao
#33. You live and die in the batting of my eyes. You cast a wavering shadow over the snow for a day. I cast my shadow over empires across eons." - Orm Hinn Langi the Dragon
Lou Anders
#34. 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.
Doris Lessing
#35. What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.
Moses Finley
#36. 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.
Winston Churchill
#37. Well I've got to get out of the rat-race now I'm tired of the ways of mice and men And the empires all turning into rust again. Out of everything nothing remains the same That's why I'm cloud hidden Cloud hidden Whereabouts unknown.
Van Morrison
#38. Ah, I wager you are most assuredly not useless as a woman, Caecelia.
Sai Marie Johnson
#39. Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
#40. I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself
Peter The Great
#42. 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.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.
Mitch Kapor
#44. I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity ...
Napoleon Bonaparte
#45. I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire ...
Thucydides
#46. 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
Mike Tyson
#47. When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?
Fay Wray
#48. I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
Winston Churchill
#49. I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.
Sid Meier
#50. I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.
Winston Churchill
#51. I have seen tyrants come and go, and each seems more invincible and more terrible than the last. They all fail. Empires arise and crumble. What matters is what each of us do where we are, when we are.
Christopher R. Taylor
#52. Oh, my precious princess you are meant for cherishing, and ravishing like the jewel you are.
Sai Marie Johnson
#53. Respect your captor, Caecelia. Learn to love your position, Caecelia. Pledge loyalty to Sparta, Caecelia. All hail Queen Caecelia of Sparta!
Sai Marie Johnson
#54. 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.
Howard Zinn
#55. I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.
Qin Shi Huang
#56. We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.
John McCain
#57. 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.
Matt Taibbi
#58. The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.
Tom Winnifrith
#59. You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time.
Thank you. Do you want something?
Neil Gaiman
#60. All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.
Rawi Hage
#61. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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