Empires Quotes - Page 8

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.

The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.

The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.

If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore.

I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.

There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is awar to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.

I recognize no empire of this present age.

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.

The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much about what this authority entailed. The post-war empire necessitated a much greater investment in administrative machinery and military force. This build-up of control had to be paid for, either by British taxpayers or by their colonists.