Empires Quotes - Page 18

• The empire of custom is most mighty.

  Publilius Syrus

  Customs

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• Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.

  Elihu Palmer

  Progress, Age, Superstitions

  Elihu PALMER (1823). “Principles of Nature; or, a development of the moral causes of Happiness and Misery among the human species”, p.198

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• The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

  Philip K. Dick

  Insanity, Insane, Violence

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, New York

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• I have my fashion empire to build.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Fashion

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• Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

  Publilius Syrus

  Over You, Great Empires

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• All empires are created of blood and fire.

  Pablo Escobar

  Fire, Blood

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is the essence of God's sovereignty; His absolute independence to do as He pleases and His absolute control over the actions of all His creatures. No creature, person, or empire can either thwart His will or act outside the bounds of His will.

  Jerry Bridges

  Essence, Independence, Action

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.33, NavPress

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• I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

  Elif Batuman

  Book, Years, Admirer

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• There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the 'credibility' of those doing the bombing. Relatedly, it's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, People, Outcomes

  "Obama, Congress and Syria" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2013.

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• 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

  Law, Revolution, Parliament

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• It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Law, Names

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.1456, Delphi Classics

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• Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Ocean, Eye, Animal

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• If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Book, Taken

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• The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to themselves. A litany of personal humiliation, outrage, and anger turned sicklelike back to themselves as humor. They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness. All but Empire State, who stood, broom in hand and drop-lipped, with the expression of a very intelligent ten-year-old.

  Toni Morrison

  Running, Intelligent, Men

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have generally been the result of a single man's observations; or the offspring of particular interests. In the formation of our constitution, the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted-as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. In short, it is an empire of reason.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Age, Together

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• Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to select Godly leaders our destiny will surely be as that of the Roman Empire.

  Ronald Reagan

  Godly, Destiny, Leader

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• Jesus is the purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hand has raised empires from their foundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages

  Jean Paul

  Jesus, Hands, Age

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• ...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

  David Irving

  Real, War, Men

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• Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  Quentin Crisp

  Rome, Style, May

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• For 40 years we were led to think of the Russians as godless, materialistic and an evil empire. When the Cold War ended, we suddenly discovered that Russia was a poor Third World country. They had not been equipped to take over the world. In fact, they were just trying to improve a miserable standard of oppressive living, and couldn't. They had to spend too much on arms build-up. We didn't win the Cold War; we bankrupted the Russians. In effect, it was a big bank exhausting the reserves of a smaller one.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, War, Winning

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• His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Powerful, Moral Leadership

  Statement on the death of Vaclav Havel, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 18, 2011.

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• Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth...but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Dream, Men, Understanding

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig (Ch. 29), 1974.

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• If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.

  Winston Churchill

  Decay, Process, British

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

  Winston Churchill

  Temples, Vices, Naked

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.230, Hachette UK

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