Empires Quotes - Page 19

• The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation—until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Men, Self

  16 Copy quote

• This is not the colonial empire that somehow he has in his hand. I’ve never felt that from him. I felt that from [George] W [Bush]. I felt that from [Bill] Clinton. I felt that from every American president, including ones I disagreed with, including [Jimmy] Carter. I don’t feel that from President Obama.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Hands, President, Bills

  "Rudy Giuliani: 'Barack Obama does not love America'" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.

  Benjamin Carson

  Fall, Men, Two

  "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great". Book by Benjamin Carson and Candy Carson, December 16, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.

  Fidel Castro

  Ignorance, Mean, Competition

  "Made in the World". www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2012.

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible.

  Cao Cao

  Wise, Strong, Way

  "Records of the Three Kingdoms". Book by Chen Shou,

  75 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am never going to do an Empire Strikes Back ending again in a game, even if they put branding irons to my feet.

  Chris Avellone

  Games, Iron, Feet

  "'Everything is Possible': Inside the Minds of Gaming's Master Storytellers". Gamespot Interview, www.gamespot.com. March 24, 2005.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Military, Past

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.54, Beacon Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Slavery was a central concern of governance form the time of the first nation-state. The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest know set of laws for governing an empire, prescribed death for anyone who harbored a fugitive or otherwise helped a slave to escape. The relationship between the law and bondage goes back even farther: Indeed, the oldest extant legal documents don't concern the sale of land, houses, or even animals, but slaves.

  Derrick Jensen

  Animal, Law, Land

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.60, Chelsea Green Publishing

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some countries of Europe have to free themselves from the US Empire. They are not going to frighten us because we are a people with dignity and sovereignty.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Europe, People

  "Bolivian president flies home to hero’s welcome", www.taipeitimes.com. July 5, 2013.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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, Might, Barbarians

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Statue of Liberty means everything. We take it for granted today. We take it for granted. Remember the Statue of Liberty stands for what America is. We as Democrats have to remind ourselves and remind the country the great principles we stand for. This is a place of protection. This is not a country of bullies. We are not an empire. We are the light. We are the Statue of Liberty.

  Jerry Springer

  Country, Mean, Light

  "Leaving the Fold". "This American Life" podcast, 258, www.thisamericanlife.org. January 30, 2004.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

  Jose Saramago

  Optimistic, People, Faces

  "Desventuras em serie". Interview with Luis Antonio Giron in Sao Paulo for Epoca Magazine (in Portuguese), translated, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to change. Planned, controlled, beneficent change would continue to clear slums, sweep up the remains of empire, raise living and educational standards, tidy away--firmly but kindly--the last aboriginals who still raved about martial glory or the pride of wealth. Now, as it seems to me, change is set almost exclusively in the minor key, change seen overwhelmingly as loss.

  Neal Ascherson

  Change, Educational, Pride

  Neal Ascherson (1988). “Games with Shadows”, Hudson Annex

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Philosophy, Men

  Olaf Stapledon (1975). “To the End of Time”, Macmillan Reference USA

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Military, Fall, Unions

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.9, Basic Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  James G. Stavridis

  Afghanistan, Graveyard

  4 Copy quote

• Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My death shall do it." Other martyrs have died in simple fidelity to truth. This martyr dies that He may make His truth mighty over all hearts. He was a man; but was He only a man?

  Herrick Johnson

  Heart, Simple, Men

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

  Dana Gioia

  Poet, Modern, Appeals

  Dana Gioia (2003). “Barrier of a common language: an American looks at contemporary British poetry”, Univ of Michigan Pr

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Kings, Fall, Age

  8 Copy quote

• Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.

  Jonathan Alter

  Character, Fundraising, Presidential

  9 Copy quote

• What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, though ... there are times in which the territorial logic comes to the fore. But this then poses a crucial question: how can the territorial logics of power, which tend to be awkwardly fixed in space, respond to the open spatial dynamics of endless capital accumulation? And what does endless capital accumulation imply for the territorial logics of power?

  David Harvey

  Space, Doe, Dynamics

  David Harvey (2003). “The New Imperialism”, p.33, OUP Oxford

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

  John Mearsheimer

  Progress, World, Unions

  John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.219, W. W. Norton & Company

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Seventeen years after its intial release, The Empire Strikes Back is still as thrilling and involving as ever. Because of the high quality of the original product, it doesn't show a hint of dating. Neither [Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope nor Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi] were able to match the narrative scope of Empire, which today remains one of the finest and most rousing science fiction tales ever committed to the screen.

  James Berardinelli

  Stars, War, Years

  "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)". A movie review at www.reelviews.net,

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Blow, Might, British

  26 Copy quote

• Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally destroyed the Greek Empire, driving out Greek scholars, who carried the knowledge of Greek language and literature to the western world; and in 1454 the first document known to us appeared from the printing press at Mainz.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Two, Years, Greek

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 41-42, 1949.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source