Quotes About The Spanish Empire

#1. The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Robert Kiyosaki

#2. If that for which the Spanish Empire has stood since the days of Charles V is right, then everything for which the United States stands and has always stood is wrong.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#3. The Roman Empire, Vikings, British, Spanish, Portuguese,... all raped women, but it always seems worse when done to us.

Daniel Marques

#4. We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

Michael Josephson

#5. Low key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.

Robert Maurer

#6. Here is the irony: Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars, and as a result there was never a European empire - there was instead a British empire, a Spanish empire, a French empire, a Portuguese empire, and so on.

George Friedman

#7. The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.

Bruce Lee

#8. I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?

Marcel Ophuls

#9. Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of the Incas. It was the capital of South America; it was where the Spanish founded their empire and took over the Inca Empire and made it into a colony of Spain.

Mario Testino

#10. The best place to bury a dead love is deep in the depths of memory where it can be cherished forever.

Georgina Gentry

#11. How in the hell am I supposed to watch my back if I have no idea what I'm watching for?

Julia Quinn