Empires Quotes - Page 7

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

... nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.

Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.

Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.

You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring to see people snub their noses at the American empire and succeed.

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.

I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not immeasurably superior to all your friends. Exercises of this sort, prolonged through several years, will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching, and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field.

The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.

It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.