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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

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair. — Alexander Pope

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

Pain demands to be felt, he said, which was a line from An Imperial Affliction. — John Green

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

In imperial relationships, getting out proves much more complicated than getting in. — H.W. Brands

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

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free,
These are imperial arts. — John Dryden

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

What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose. — Homer

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

Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained. — Pankaj Mishra

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

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family — Tacitus

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

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

The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either. — Lydia Lunch

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

You have an imperial presidency that makes Richard Nixon look like a boy scout. — Allen West

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

Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings. — Apollonius Of Tyana

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa. — Neil MacGregor