Empires Quotes - Page 5

• Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Would Be

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.610, Pearson Education

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• It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  People, Doe, Stakes

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• I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Real, Fate, Important

  Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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• But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

  Ezra Stiles

  Government, Two, People

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• I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

  Sid Meier

  Respect, Games, Play

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• Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

  John Shimkus

  Land, People, Age

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• In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire; and if the race was not far advanced in the arts of civilisation, it must at all events have had great numerical force.

  James Theodore Bent

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

  "Aegean Islands: The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks".

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• A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Lying, Long, Culture

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.12

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• I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

  Carl Paladino

  New York, States, Empire State

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• My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

  Joseph Barbera

  Fall, Lasts, Roman Civilization

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

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• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

  Barbara Amiel

  Running, Country, Benefits

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• I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

  Peter the Great

  Character, Historical, Able

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• Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Fighting, Exercise

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• On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

  Gore Vidal

  Debtors, United States, Literature

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  Samuel Butler

  Beauty, Pain, Compassion

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• The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.

  James Risen

  Army, Dating, Mind

  James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

  John Ralston Saul

  Lying, Ideas, Intellectual

  "Reflections of a Siamese Twin". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1997.

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• Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Believe, Son

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• Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

  Bias of Priene

  Government, Law, Firsts

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• The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

  William Blake

  Art, Aggravation, Vices

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Vision, Thrones, Crowns

  Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”

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• The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today.

  Linda Goodman

  Stars, Astrology, Shining

  Linda Goodman (1968). “Sun signs”

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• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Together, Politics

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Men, Scotland

  Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

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• Anarchy wears two faces, both Creator and Destroyer. Thus Destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators can then build a better world. Rubble, once achieved makes further ruins' means irrelevant. Away with our explosives, then! Away with our Destroyers! They have no place within our better world. But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable, let's drink their health, then meet with them no more.

  Alan Moore

  Mean, Two, Bombers

  "V for Vendetta". Book by Alan Moore, September 1988 – May 1989.

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