Empires Quotations | Page 2

But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

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.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.

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.

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.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

When I'm in New York I look at the Empire State Building and feel as though it belongs to me ... or is it vice versa?

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

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

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting—corruption and favoritism, mostly—endemic to the system.

Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!

Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire,

We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts all of us in jeopardy. The American Empire, while it was just wreaking havoc on other nations, didn't bother us.

The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

Can one move an empire as if it were a house?

This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.

I have heard that one can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback.

To destroy Christianity, we must first destroy the British Empire.

The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

The empire of custom is most mighty.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

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.

In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. It short, it is an empire of reason.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

Empire breeds terrorism.

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.

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

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

I say one evil empire down...one to go.

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind

Every empire eventually falls.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

Westward the star of empire takes its way.

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

Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

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

Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.

I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.

History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

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.

The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place. Then, also, is produced the phenomenon of agglomeration, of "the full." For that reason, as Spengler has very well observed, it was necessary, just as in our day, to construct enormous buildings. The epoch of the masses is the epoch of the colossal.

That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.

I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do.

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

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

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

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

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

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

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

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

Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.

The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.

Can't' will be the epitaph of the British Empire - unless we wake up in time.

I have my fashion empire to build.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

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

Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines.

We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

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

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

So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.

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