Empires Quotes - Page 2

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.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

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

The American empire should be destroyed.

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.

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.

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

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

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.

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.