Quotes and Sayings About Empires
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In summer the empire of insects spreads.
-- Adam ZagajewskiSource : "In Valleys" by Adam Zagajewski, www.newyorker.com. May 2, 2011.
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The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
-- Adrian GoldsworthySource : Adrian Goldsworthy (2009). “The Fall Of The West: The Death Of The Roman Superpower”, p.178, Hachette UK
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Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
-- Alan Moore -
Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
-- Albert Camus -
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The American empire should be destroyed.
-- Aleksandr DuginSource : "The Fourth Political Theory". Book by Aleksandr Dugin, 2009.
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The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
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It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow;
-- Andrew MarvellSource : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 7 (1681)
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I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.
-- Anne-Marie Duff -
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth
-- Aristotle -
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
-- Barbara Amiel -
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
-- Bernard DeVoto -
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Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.
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It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.
-- Boutros Boutros-GhaliSource : "Unvanquished: A U.S. - U.N. Saga". Book by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1999.
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I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.
-- Cao CaoSource : "Records of the Three Kingdoms". Book by Chen Shou,
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
-- Carl Paladino -
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It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.
-- Carroll QuigleySource : Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.
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Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
-- Chandra Talpade Mohanty -
The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.
-- Charley Reese -
The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism
-- Chris Hedges -
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it
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Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating.
-- CM Punk -
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the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.
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Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.
-- Dana GioiaSource : Dana Gioia (2003). “Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry”, Univ of Michigan Pr