Empires Quotes - Page 18

• When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

  Langston Hughes

  Sports, Baseball, Men

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• The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.

  Fergie

  Inspiration, Gun, Ducks

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• The people have a right supreme
  To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
  All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,
  Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.
  Successionm for the general good design'd,
  In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.

  John Dryden

  Kings, People, Design

  John Dryden (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

  John Milton

  Hate, Winning, Hands

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• ...What are numbers knit
  By force or custom? Man who man would be,
  Must rule the empire of himself; in it
  Must be supreme, establishing his throne
  On vanquished will, quelling the anarchy
  Of hopes and fears, being himself alone.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Numbers, Would Be

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1830). “The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Consisting of Miscellaneous Selections from His Poetical Works, the Entire Poems of Adonais and Alastor, and a Revised Edition of Queen Mab ... With a Biographical Preface. Second Edition”, p.32

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• The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Wall, Firsts, Hammers

  Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1994). “The View from the Kremlin”, HarperCollins

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• If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Long, Looks, Nations

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• My mind to me an empire is.

  Robert Southwell

  Mind

  Saint Robert Southwell, William Joseph Walter (1817). “St. Peter's Complaint: And Other Poems”, p.55

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• If you want to humble an empire it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can't be safe. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, planted at the base of Manhattan island with the Statue of Liberty as their sentry, and the Pentagon, a squat, concrete fort on the banks of the Potomac, are the sanctuaries of money and power that our enemies may imagine define us. But that assumes our faith rests on what we can buy and build, and that has never been America's true God.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Powerful, Humble, America

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• The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Wall, Evil, Having Fun

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• Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.

  Crispin Glover

  Eight, Would Be, Cinema

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, Media, Government

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• Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

  Joni Mitchell

  Dream, Fall, Reality

  Song: Fiction, Album: Dog Eat Dog

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• We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.

  Ani DiFranco

  Art, Media, Water

  Ani DiFranco (2011). “Ani DiFranco: Verses”, p.37, Seven Stories Press

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• 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

  Government, Ideas, Doe

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• America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.

  George W. Bush

  Greatness, America, Justice

  "Governor George W. Bush - 'A Distinctly American Internationalism'". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, www.globalsecurity.org. November 19, 1999.

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

  Michael Mandelbaum

  America, Doe, Disappear

  "The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era by Michael Mandelbaum" by George Walden, www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2010.

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• American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Special, United States, Doe

  Michael Mandelbaum (2009). “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.

  Russell Kirk

  Kings, Men, Self

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• Within the studies and on the screen, the Jews could simply create a new country - an empire of their own, so to speak, one where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well. The would create its values and myths, its traditions and archetypes.

  Neal Gabler

  Country, Study, Speak

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• The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written...It is not a mere coincidence that at the notorious meeting held at Stockholm in 1916, between the former Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, and the German Agents, the German Foreign Office was represented by Mr. Warburg, whose two brothers were members of the international banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, of which the late Mr. Jacob Schiff was a senior member.

  Boris Brasol

  Senior, Brother, Government

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• Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Paris, Cambridge University, Oxford

  "America Will Never Be Free Until the Last Liberal Is Strangled in the Entrails of the Last Bureaucrat". www.pearceyreport.com. November 12, 2010.

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

  Chris Messina

  Style, Actors, World

  "Chris Messina Talks Ruby Sparks, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Argo, the Mindy Project, Damages, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 23, 2012.

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• With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President
  Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos
  of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but
  gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism -
  the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the
  Ottoman Empire a century ago.

  Hisham Melhem

  Islamic, Civilization, Broken

  "The Barbarians Within Our Gates" by Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. September 18, 2014.

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• Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet I suspect...they do not care. They don’t want to see what is done in their name. They do not want to look at the rows of flag-draped coffins, the horribly maimed bodies and faces of veterans, or the human suffering in the blighted and deserted former manufacturing centers. It is too upsetting. Government and corporate censorship is therefore welcomed and appreciated.

  Curtis White

  Selfish, Government, Names

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