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Without imperial support, it is doubtful whether modern science would have progressed very far. There
— Yuval Noah Harari
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
— Edward W. Said
Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.
— Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
— Simon Hoggart
The metal is called Celestial bronze. It's deadly to monsters, like Imperial gold, but even rarer.
— Rick Riordan
Confirmed. Complete negative on Imperial activity,' Yendor replied. 'Unless the Empire's drafting small woodland creatures all of a sudden.
— Claudia Gray
Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
— Edward Abbey
The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.
— Adrian Goldsworthy
I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.
— Angus King
Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.
— Diana Vreeland
There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.
— John Williams
My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.
— Fran Lebowitz
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.
— Felix Morley
I drink tea pretty much continuously at a rate of around 1 imperial pint/hour, which sort of enforces screen/keyboard breaks.
— Charles Stross
It was not the lover she regretted,' wrote a Swiss imperial tutor, who understood their relationship. 'It was the friend.
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
— Iain McGilchrist
Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.
— Damon Galgut
They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
— Bobby Sands
It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.
— Bertrand Russell
The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.
— Noam Chomsky
Young Stalin Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner
— Simon Sebag Montefiore
The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule.
— Michael Ignatieff
I appreciate the confidence, Your Imperial Psychologist, but we're way beyond that. Cress if over me and ... it's for the best.
— Marissa Meyer
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
— Elizabeth I
There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
— Ani DiFranco
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
— Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
— Frances Burney
Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.
— Vandana Shiva
That imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.
— Richard Flanagan
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
— F. Sionil Jose
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
— Faye Wattleton
The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Did I become a theater person right then, sitting in the Imperial Theater, waiting for the high piccolo note at the start of 'Pippin'? Maybe.
— Jean Hanff Korelitz
Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.
— Hideki Tojo
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless with an animal vigor unlike that of any European crowd that I ever looked at.
— Ezra Pound
I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.
— Florence King
In the midst of escaping from Imperial warriors was definitely the wrong time to be mentally undressing flying women.
— Michelle M. Pillow
Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd
Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. — John Milton
Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. — John Milton
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
— Lucan
Stupid Romanian bloodsucker. He was lucky I hadn't bestowed another exalted scar on his imperial body.
— Beth Fantaskey
As soon as we are stripped of the sordid garb of avarice, we shall be clothed with the royal and imperial vest of the opposite virtue, liberality.
— Philip Neri
We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.
— Shane Claiborne
Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me.
— Marc Chagall
There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity,
— Justinian I
Only Sicarius would bring all his weapons to the smooching corner of the Imperial Gardens.
— Lindsay Buroker
Opinion crowns with an imperial voice.
— William Shakespeare
How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?
— Bill Moyers
At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.
— Hideki Tojo
Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.
— Robert Browning
Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.
— Walter Brueggemann
Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and . . . every empire imagines itself an exception.
— Ann Laura Stoler
His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue by Greek envy.
— David B. Dacosta
We are squandering our wealth in many respects, to the extent that we persist in our imperial delusions, we're also going to squander our freedom.
— Andrew Bacevich