Empires Quotes - Page 32

• 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

  Names, Revolution, Vortex

  "Quotations for Special Occasions". Book by Maud Van Buren, 1937.

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• Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Fall, Future

  Song: Revelation, Album: Blizzard of Ozz

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• The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different emphases between the Eastern church and the Western church.

  Justo L. Gonzalez

  Latin, Greek, Church

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power around the world, it's something that democracies tend to be quite skeptical about.

  Mark Danner

  Democracy, Use, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• America is an empire in decay. But we don't have to lash out and do damage on the way down. We can reverse some of the damage we've done. It's possible.

  Viggo Mortensen

  America, Decay, Done

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• You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks...although the latter is much less realistic.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  New York, Film, Building

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not so Pro-Israel'I'm Pro-Africa. Africa's greatest enemy of all time is the Arab Muslim Empire'they enslaved us for one thousand years and have committed untold atrocities and genocides against the East African people.

  Kola Boof

  Israel, Years, People

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• Remember all those who suffer from their own downfall, after having believed themselves to be winners, and who now weep for the many lost hours. So while you still have time, seek to enrich your own spirits for the tomorrow which awaits you because, in accordance with the teachings of the Lord, it is of no use to retain the outward appearance of the splendor of all the empires of this world, if you maintain darkness within your heart.

  Chico Xavier

  Teaching, Heart, Darkness Within

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• Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

  John Pilger

  Passive Voice, Mind, Weapons

  Source: progressive.org

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• . If you believe that your nation is divinely ordained to rule Europe, and you must struggle to establish its supremacy, is that a religious doctrine or a nationalist one? In Germany especially, the whole super-nationalist ideology of the post-1871 empire is heavily imbued with religious teaching, chiefly Lutheran, and frankly viewing the new empire as the germ of the kingdom of God on Earth.

  Philip Jenkins

  Religious, Teaching, Believe

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical beast that's part lion, part dragon. You know at the bottom is a democracy, and then it's an imperial power around the world.

  Mark Danner

  Dragons, Democracy, Around The World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

  Peter Greenaway

  Fall, Decline, British

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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• His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I'm not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we're all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire.

  Bob Colacello

  Thinking, America, Mind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.

  Susan Jacoby

  Thinking, People, Eras

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we rather lost it in the 19th Century, we became so much part of empire and colonialism, the language of the Church Of England still reflects that Victorian time. As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church's role in losing people.

  Alan Green

  Thinking, People, Church

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their land. In India, it was the same thing: the population increased at the end of the 18th century when the British took over and Indian lands were colonized. Instead of the land feeding Indian people it started to feed the British empire. So we had destitution. Destitute people who don't have their own land to feed themselves can only feed themselves by having larger numbers, therefore they multiply. It's the rational response of a dispossessed people.

  Vandana Shiva

  Land, Numbers, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?

  Naomi Novik

  Thinking, Dragons, Southern

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself.

  Laurent Dubois

  Opportunity, Rights, Desire

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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• The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.

  Tariq Ali

  United States, States, United

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

  Richard Hell

  New York, Shifting, Building

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at the Roman gods.

  Susan Jacoby

  Religious, Long, Choices

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• How do things, whether they are movies, or plays, Hamilton, or people, ideas - how do they become transformative or iconic? That is in some ways what the actual Star Wars saga gets at, with the tale of the rise and the fall of the empire and the rise and the fall of Republics.

  Cass Sunstein

  Stars, War, Fall

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.

  Juan Enriquez

  Important, Doe, Lasts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The UK had plenty of people in their country just like we have here who had the same attitudes about immigration that you find on the American left and the Democrat Party here. That the Brits, because of colonialism and because the British Empire had been so unfair to people all over the world it was time to pay the price. And you had liberals who thought that all of this was making a grand diverse society and population which would improve things in the UK.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Attitude, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Maria Sharapova is her own empire. She herself personally makes more in revenue than the entire WTA tour.

  L. Jon Wertheim

  Revenue

  Source: www.npr.org

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