Empires Quotes - Page 40

• The American empire should be destroyed.

  Aleksandr Dugin

  Should, American Empire, Destroyed

  "The Fourth Political Theory". Book by Aleksandr Dugin, 2009.

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• In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Queens, Water

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• It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works of creation and providence - the heavens with their luminaries, the mountains, the ocean, the storm, the earthquake, the volcano, the circuit of the seasons, and the revolutions of empires - without marking in them all the mighty hand of God, and feeling strong emotions of reverence toward the Author of these stupendous works.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Strong, Ocean, Volcanoes

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 273), 1895.

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• I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.

  Qin Shi Huang

  Writing, Use

  "The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption". Book by Clive Foss, p. 10, 2006.

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• The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Writing, Men, Media

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• The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.

  Sadao Araki

  Foundation, Crowns, Birth

  "Sun's Son's Son". "TIME" Magazine, January 1, 1934.

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• The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Philosophical, Gita

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• Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

  Robert Benchley

  Art, Entertainment, Holy

  Robert Benchley (1946). “One Minute, Please”

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• I don't like the triumphalism of the American narrative, this kind of "chosen people" complex that American people have, so it's inspiring to see people snub their noses at the American empire and succeed.

  Ian Svenonius

  People, Narrative, Succeed

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Fall, Loss

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the Spirit of 1776, Jasanoff gives us the Spirit of 1783, dedicated to remaking the mighty British Empire, and then offers a stunning reinterpretation of the Loyalists' complicated role in that remaking. Her meticulously researched and superbly written account is historical revision at its finest, and it affirms her place as one of the very finest historians of the rising generation.

  Sean Wilentz

  Light, Giving, Historical

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• If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.

  Cory Booker

  Civilization, Weakness, Looks

  "Brick Towers" by Cory Booker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2005.

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• My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

  Natasha Trethewey

  Memories, Blood, People

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• Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

  Noah Feldman

  Fall, Judging, Legacy

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• It is in this space of mastery over paradigms that people throw off addictions, live in constant joy, bring down empires, get locked up or burned at the stake or crucified or shot, and have impacts that last for millennia.

  Donella Meadows

  Impact, Space, People

  Donella Meadows (2008). “Thinking in Systems: A Primer”, p.165, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Running, Kindness, Might

  "Dr. Doom" by Stephen Mihm, www.nytimes.com. August 15, 2008.

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• Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.

  Jim Cooper

  Oxygen, Blood, Law

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• I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.

  Terence Winter

  War, Book, Thinking

  "Tricks of the trade from Broadwalk Empire creator Terence Winter" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. August 30, 2011.

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• Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.

  Fred Dibnah

  Teaching, Boys, Cake

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• With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That's why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.

  Denis Waitley

  Struggle, Believe, Creating

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• The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April.

  James Bryce

  Practice, Government, Months

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• We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.

  George H. W. Bush

  Hands, Effort, Humanity

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• Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

  George Will

  War, Fate, Choices

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• I do not know whether this universe has an emperor; all I know is that this empire is in chaos; universal order is a big delusion.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Order, Chaos, Bigs

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• The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.

  William Blum

  Leader, Mafia, Als

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