Quotes of: American-empire Keyword

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

Javier Bardem

I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wars' fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.

Donald Faison

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

Edmund Burke

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

John Boyd Orr

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

Don Rickles

Through the international hotel empire, the Hilton name has become synonymous with class and sophistication.

Jerry Oppenheimer

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

John Boyd Orr

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

Daniel Ellsberg

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Ann Landers

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

Barbara Amiel

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating...

Love

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.

Eric Kandel

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.

Empire of the Ants

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

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

Mo Ibrahim

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

Robert Trout

I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right.

Rita Ora

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Zbigniew Brzezinski