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Yet, in fact, religion has been the third great unifier of humankind, alongside money and empires.
— Yuval Noah Harari
All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.
— Edward Rutherfurd
Ah, I wager you are most assuredly not useless as a woman, Caecelia.
— Sai Marie Johnson
Ah, does my princess now want what I offer?
— Sai Marie Johnson
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
— John Dryden
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
— Marcus Aurelius
Afghanistan - where empires go to die.
— Mike Malloy
I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.
— Sid Meier
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
— John Boyd Orr
The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.
— Winston Churchill
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else.
— Thomas De Quincey
Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.
— Janet Wallach
Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, "the metropolis of the empire"?
— William Cobbett
The empire of custom is most mighty.
— Publilius Syrus
An empire is an immense egotism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
— Archibald Primrose
Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.
— Lord Randolph Churchill
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
— Martin Scorsese
The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
— Louis XVIII Of France
The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong - it is obscene.
— Dinesh D'Souza
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[T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect.
— George Washington
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Empires always spawn demons,
— George Friedman
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself
— Peter The Great
The American empire should be destroyed.
— Aleksandr Dugin
Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.
— Edward Young
Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
— Ozzy Osbourne
It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
— Winston Churchill
The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.
— Lionel
Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires
— Tobsha Learner
When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.
— Kenny Everett
The naval expansionism of the southern Chola and Pallava empires took Indian influences directly to Thailand, Malaya, Indonesia and Cambodia. Later,
— Shashi Tharoor
Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour.
— L. Jon Wertheim
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
— Samuel Johnson
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.
— Timothy Levitch
Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!
— Hugo Chavez
The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.
— Martin Luther
This is an age of superstition and wishful thinking. The sky is full of evening's empires, and every one of them is founded on sand.
— Paul McAuley
The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.
— Publilius Syrus
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
— John Lothrop Motley
The gospel is fiction when judged by the empire, but the empire is fiction when judged by the gospel.
— Walter Brueggemann
Empires come and go, but playgrounds last forever.
— Paul Tayyar
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.
— Thomas Hutchinson
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.
— James A. Garfield
Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows.
— David Mitchell
Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.
— Bias Of Priene
The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.
— Niall Ferguson
All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ...
— Michael Moorcock
But if men are the makers and breakers of empires, then women are the makers and breakers of men.
— Kate Quinn
The vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
— Edward Gibbon
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
— Tony Benn
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
— Mark Rutte
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
— Walter Scott
Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.
— Robert Benchley
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
— Winston Churchill
Just as Hitler had predicted, it was rival empires more than indigenous nationalists who propelled the process of decolonization forward.
— Niall Ferguson
Strength builds empires that last for decades. Wisdom builds empires that last for centuries. Love builds empires that last forever.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.
— Edward Gibbon
A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire ...
— Cardinal Richelieu
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
— Kevin J. Anderson
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fiery little cat you are, Caecelia. Like a lioness in heat, oh how you bloom.
— Sai Marie Johnson
The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
— Chalmers Johnson
If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.
— Pat Buchanan
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[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.
— Edward Gibbon
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles.
— Maureen Dowd
All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.
— Erin Morgenstern
Empires collapse, Civilizations disappear,
Health deteriorates
And bodies turn to ash,
But life will always go on — Mouloud Benzadi
Don't be so foolish to believe empires are built on stone. They're on bamboo stilts at best.
— Exurb1a
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
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.
— Donald Rumsfeld
The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society.
— William Wordsworth
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
— Noah Feldman
The Jews might become the dynamite that will blow up the British Empire.
— Ze'ev Jabotinsky