Empire Quotes

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

Control, Union, Europe

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.
Eliot Engel

War, Two, Simply

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.
Antony Sher

Saying, Her, Expect

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
Herbert Kaufman

Higher, Bigger, Crowns

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
Ezra Stiles

Government, Two, Cannot

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium.
Robert Trout

Ugly, India, British

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

Today, Learn, Read

How is the Empire?
King George V

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.
Joseph Sobran

Government, Purpose, Defense

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
Robert D. Kaplan

Different, Days, United

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
Robert D. Kaplan

History, Long, Before

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
Jeremy Paxman

Find, Leaving, Whole

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.
John Shimkus

Themselves, Middle, Asia

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.
John Shimkus

Single, Almost, Rest

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything.
Jeremy Bulloch

Everything, Strikes

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.
Chris Messina

Love, Style, Boardwalk

I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is an absolute musical quality in her beautiful body and phrasing. Because we are sincere and gifted, an intense abstract love is born between us every time we dance together.
Rudolf Nureyev

Love, Time, Beautiful

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.
Crispin Glover

True, Film, State

During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.
Georg Solti

Life, War, Important

It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.
John Amery

Integrity, Giving, Give

Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm just completely full on Empire Square. There's no time to do anything else. But there's a few things on the back burner, including another Blur album before too long.
Dave Rowntree

Time, Long, Before

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
Walter Russell Mead

Today, Writing, Times

The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.
Robert Foster Bennett

Evil, Down, Around

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.
Seth Gordon

Life, Evil, Philosophy

Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
Joseph Howe

Power, Judge, Law

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
Iain Sinclair

Political, Between, Able

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
Al Stewart

Past, Remember, Fall

I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
Carl Paladino

Again, Once, State

The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be.
Mark Bittman

Work, Health, Crisis

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

Ignorance, Past, America

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