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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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.

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

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.

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.'