Emperor Quotes

• Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Life, Beauty

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole. Chapter "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes", 1994.

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• The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

  Willa Cather

  Girl, Ambition, Facts

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.368, U of Nebraska Press

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• They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

  Hirohito

  Race, People, Legends

  Address denying his divinity, 1 Jan. 1946

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  It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Moving On, Death

  Marcus Aurelius (2015). “Meditations”, p.144, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

  Camille Claudel

  Art, Men, Generous Man

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• It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Clothes, Half

  "The Sandman". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, January 1989-March 1996.

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• My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.

  Wolfman Jack

  Country, Fake People, Titles

  Wolfman Jack, Byron Laursen (2011). “Have Mercy!: Confessions of the Original Rock 'n' Roll Animal - Wolfman Jack”, p.371, BookBaby

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• No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

  Tacitus

  History, Reign, Ability

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• How dangerous emperors are when they go mad.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Mad, Dangerous

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• I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

  Jack Kingston

  Children, Used, Ethiopia

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• The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.

  Henri Pirenne

  Unity, World, May

  Henri Pirenne (2012). “Mohammed and Charlemagne”, p.284, Courier Corporation

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• Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

  Elizabeth I

  Queens, Son, May

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• I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Kings, Government, Simplicity

  John Stilwell Jenkins, Andrew Jackson (2011). “Life and Public Services of Gen. Andrew Jackson, Seventh President of the United States: Including the Most Important of His State Papers”, p.371, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.

  Horatio Nelson

  Night, Order, Years

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• Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor’s New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

  Roger Penrose

  Book, Thinking, Views

  "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.

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• As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

  Ernst Toller

  Kings, Hero, Boys

  Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

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• An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

  Chinua Achebe

  Artist, People, Understanding

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• A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

  Damon Lindelof

  Ideas, Clothes, Feelings

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• Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

  Guru Nanak

  Kings, Dominion, Ants

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• Victory belongs to the most persevering.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 51), 1888.

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• I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

  Hirohito

  Military, Japan, Effort

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• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Intelligent, Greatness

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  When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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• The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Thinking

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