Quotes of: Empire Keyword

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Voltaire

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

Michael Mandelbaum

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countr...

Doris Lessing

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

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.

Donald Kagan

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

Mitch Kapor

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 fring...

Margaret Atwood

Dak: Right now I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Lando: I've just made a deal that'll keep the Empire out of here forever.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

Winston S. Churchill

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Frank Pentangeli: Those were the great old days,you know... And we was like the Roman Empire... The Corleone family was like the Roman Empire...

The Godfather: Part II

Boba Fett: What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me. Darth Vader: The Empire will compensate you, if he dies. Put him in.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

Kevin Spacey

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

James G. Stavridis

The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of Mamun, the Arabs measured the circumference of the earth with remarkable accuracy. Seven centuries were to pass before Wes...

The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival

When the Tsar sins the Empire must do penance.

Russian

The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.

Publilius Syrus

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

Andrew Cuomo

Ah, does my princess now want what I offer?

In Empires and Embraces