Empires Quotes

• All empires are created of blood and fire.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Fire
  • Blood
  • Empires

• Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Empires
  • Flags
  • Armament

• Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Fall
  • Military
  • Empires

• There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Style
  • Kings
  • Going Out

• I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Desire
  • Hip Hop
  • Shots

• There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Sin
  • Empires
  • Capitals

• Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Europe
  • Empires
  • Revolutions

• Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

  

  Herbert Kaufman
  • Bigger
  • Higher
  • Makers

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

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Time
  • States

• 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.

  

  Sadao Araki
  • Prince
  • Foundation
  • Crowns

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

  

  William Habington
  • Kingdoms
  • Royalty
  • Monarchy

• The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • War
  • Destiny
  • Battles

• 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.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Culture
  • Marketing
  • Degrees

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

  

  Chalmers Johnson
  • Empires
  • Demise

• The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society. Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire.

  

  William Henry Chamberlin
  • Taxes
  • Productive
  • Roman

• All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Age
  • Fall
  • Failing

• There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Routine
  • Empires
  • Boardwalks

• now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Sleep
  • Wine
  • Seven

• Sanford and Son is more than just a name. It's a condition, a dynasty, an empire. This here is the finest pile of junk of the world.

  

  Redd Foxx
  • World
  • Son
  • Finest

• They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

  

  Edith Durham
  • Powers
  • Empires
  • Wreckage

• You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Slave
  • Trade
  • Southern

• I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Independent
  • Blow

• But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?

  

  William Cobbett
  • Fate
  • Silly
  • Metropolis

• Russia comes from a place of deep resentment against the West, in general, and the United States in particular. They are rapacious, because they want back as much of their empire as they can grab. And we need to resist that. At the same time, we should be able to look for areas of common interest.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Needs
  • Looks
  • Interest

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