Empires Quotes - Page 25

• All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

  Ralph Nader

  Records

  Source: www.democracynow.org

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  William Safire

  Evil, Looks, Republican

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Donald] Trump`s hunt for a cheap enemy right now comes as journalists and members of Congress are looking at potentially serious conflicts of interest at Trump`s sprawling multinational business empire.

  Chuck Todd

  Enemy, Serious, Conflict

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Tired, Liberty

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• This condition of uncertainty and unrest in the Roman Empire might explain why at Plotinus' philosophy encourages us to sort of flee from the physical world and towards the world of ideas.

  Peter Adamson

  Philosophy, Ideas, Unrest

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think it's important to realise that what happens in Neo-Platonism beginning with Plotinus and Porphyry and then going on for the next several centuries, is a real kind of contest for the ideas and convictions of the intelligentsia of the later Roman Empire. So that you have Christians slowly converting more and more powerful people until of course actually Constantine and then other emperors after him, become Christian, and the empire becomes a Christian empire rather than Pagan empire.

  Peter Adamson

  Christian, Powerful, Real

  Source: www.abc.net.au

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In trading with each other cities can't be in too different stages of development, and they can't copy one another. Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires. Empires want them only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Want, Way

  Source: aqi.quebec

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Backward cities, or younger cities, or newly forming cities in supply regions, have to develop to a great extent on one another's shoulders. This is one of the terrible things about empires.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Shoulders, Terrible

  Source: aqi.quebec

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Empires want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Way, Want

  Source: aqi.quebec

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The guy, Magic Johnson, built a business empire and you don't do that just because you have a pretty smile. The guy is definitely a smart guy, knows what he's doing. He's a basketball genius. So to downplay that and disrespect that, I thought it was stereotyping him way too much.

  Mychal Thompson

  Basketball, Smart, Guy

  Source: www.sfgate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, Steve Jobs came to the music industry and pitched them the idea and they kept shootin' him down and shootin' him down, and now he makes money off the whole music industry regardless. Which is a minor part of his empire, 'cause obviously it's gadgets that make him all of his money. But regardless, he has basically monopolized the music game.

  Pitbull

  Jobs, Games, Ideas

  Source: www.djbooth.net

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each other to become the next emperor. And this contest includes actually killing each other, doing anything they can get away with to each other.

  Garth Nix

  Next, Killing Each Other, Boundaries

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.

  Dar Williams

  Foundation, Looks, Common

  Source: progressive.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

  Dar Williams

  Past, Divine Right, Hegemony

  Source: progressive.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.

  Roma Tearne

  Moving, Order, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

  Margaret Atwood

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

  Julie Burchill

  Looks, Ottomans, Inmates

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

  Benjamin Carson

  Together, Moral, Lost

  6 Copy quote

• I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Thinking, People

  "Larry King Live", www.realclearpolitics.com. September 24, 2009.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When Marcus Garvey died in 1940, the role of the British Empire was already being challenged by India and the rising expectations of her African colonies. Marcus Garvey's avocation of African redemption and the restoration of the African state's sovereign political entity in world affairs was still a dream without fulfillment.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Dream, Expectations, Political

  "The Impact of Marcus Garvey" by John Henrik Clarke, www.raceandhistory.com.

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

  Lauren Conrad

  Aspire

  "Lauren Conrad: Over the Hills". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 15, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.

  Andrew Cuomo

  People, States, Empire State

  7 Copy quote

• The time has come to return integrity, performance and dignity to New York and make it the Empire State once again.

  Andrew Cuomo

  New York, Integrity, Return

  16 Copy quote

• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Race, Years, Land

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

  82 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Marianne Faithfull

  War, Wings, Socialist

  4 Copy quote