Empires Quotes - Page 12

While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each other to become the next emperor. And this contest includes actually killing each other, doing anything they can get away with to each other.

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

I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

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

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

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

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

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

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.

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

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

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.

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

The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.

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

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

[Donald] Trump`s hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts of interest at Trump`s sprawling multinational business empire.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.

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