Empires Quotes

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Edith Durham
  • Powers
  • Empires
  • Wreckage

• Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

  

  Noah Feldman
  • History
  • Empires
  • Legacies

• The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Evil
  • Republican
  • Democrat

• Both the Eurozone and European Union is like the end of the Roman Empire. It's already started. In a few years' time it will not be there anymore. Don't ask me if it will be two years or ten years but the end is near. Like the Roman Empire, it's gone.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Asks
  • Empires
  • Eurozone

• 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

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

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Together
  • Passion
  • Poet

• The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.

  

  George Washington
  • Age
  • President
  • Ignorance

• We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.

  

  Chittaranjan Das
  • Different
  • Forget
  • Ambition

• How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • History
  • Fall
  • Existence

• The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

  

  Isoroku Yamamoto
  • Hands
  • Fate
  • Enterprise

• All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.

  

  Niall Ferguson
  • Collaboration
  • Empires
  • Coercion

• In India, as we saw, the Sepoy Mutiny led to a vast reorganization of British colonialism in the area, sending out a viceroy from London and before too long, Queen Victoria was proclaimed “Empress of India,” with this great empire, ruling over maharajahs and other local potentates.

  

  Webster Tarpley
  • Long
  • Colonialism
  • Empresses

• In the end, it is always the ruling classes, bourgeois certainly, but above all aristocratic, that long mourn the empires, and their grief always has a stagey quality to it.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Grief
  • Empires
  • Aristocratic

• The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

  

  William Mackergo Taylor
  • Injustice
  • Destroyed
  • Empires

• The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

  

  Michael Mandelbaum
  • America
  • Disappear
  • Empires

• Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

  

  Chris Johnson
  • Enemy
  • Killing
  • Meetings

• 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 Quigley
  • Leaving
  • Globes
  • Barbarians

• In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Family
  • Silent
  • Africa

• 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.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Universe
  • Financial
  • Achieve

• Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.

  

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  • Feminist
  • Projects
  • Critique

• People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Want
  • Empires

• 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.

  

  Wellington Webb
  • Nation
  • Cities
  • Century

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