Empires Quotes - Page 5

The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong—it is obscene.

We live in a society created by an empire That's based on terror...welcome to the One World Era, A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life, That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.

An empire is an immense egotism.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.

My mind to me an empire is.

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

Empire breeds terrorism.

Every empire eventually falls.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

You cannot be less than you are now. You cannot achieve a vibration that is less than the vibration that you have achieved. That's why when someone achieves an empire and then something happens where it is lost or destroyed, they still have the vibration that they've achieved, and the empire will come back again - you see it all the time - because it is the vibrational status that the Universe is responding to, not the financial status.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.

The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.