Top 27 Deep, Inspirational Quotes About "Empires" (2022)

"To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral."

--- Abbie Hoffman

#Evil #Brother #Institutions

"O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most."

--- Abraham Coles

#Made #My Own #Thee

"How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?"

--- Abraham Kuyper

#Eye #Age #Social

"The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind."

--- Adam Smith

#Political #Kind #Littles

"But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality."

--- Adam Smith

#Men #Aim #Immortality

"To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers."

--- Adam Smith

#People #Firsts #May

"In summer the empire of insects spreads."

--- Adam Zagajewski

#Spread #Summer #Empires

"The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament, the closer drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this Babylonian Empire, and with it the hour of freedom for my German-Austrian people."

--- Adolf Hitler

#People #Hours #Inevitable

"Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was wholly admirable; to Spain flocked the greatest scientists, thinkers, astronomers, and mathematicians of the world, and side by side there flourished a spirit of sweet human tolerance and a sense of purist chivalry. Then with the advent of Christianity, came the barbarians."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Astronomers #Humans #World

"We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island."

--- Adolf Hitler

#People #Has Beens #British

"The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died."

--- Adrian Goldsworthy

#Stories #Died #Century

"The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters."

--- Adrian Tchaikovsky

#Originals #Ideas #Book

"Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections."

--- Aime Martin

#Giving #Morality #Law

"Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much disorder there. Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless."

--- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#Made #Problem #Political

"White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it."

--- Al Sharpton

#White #Greek #Building

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

--- Al Stewart

#Looks #Remember #Fall

"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

#People #Thinking #I Can

"Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes."

--- Alan Moore

#Long #Snaps #Fingers

"Anarchy wears two faces, both Creator and Destroyer. Thus Destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators can then build a better world. Rubble, once achieved makes further ruins' means irrelevant. Away with our explosives, then! Away with our Destroyers! They have no place within our better world. But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable, let's drink their health, then meet with them no more."

--- Alan Moore

#World #Raises #Irrelevant

"There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes."

--- Alan Moore

#Men #Long #Littles

"Kaytoo [from the Star Wars] is more even-keeled. And he's a badass. He comes from the Empire, and he's a security droid. Some people call him an enforcer droid. He has the ability to enforce things. That was what he was built for. He's tall. He has an intimidating frame."

--- Alan Tudyk

#People #War #Built

"Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history."

--- Albert Camus

#Stirring #Ifs #Has Beens

"Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics."

--- Albert Camus

#Results #World #Concepts

"Empires and churches are born under the sun of death."

--- Albert Camus

#Born #Church #Sun

"The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion."

--- Albert Pike

#Mines #Men #May

"Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made. And we cannot fix the exact point at which our empire shall stop; we have reached a position in which we must not be content with retaining but must scheme to extend it, for, if we cease to rule others, we are in danger of being ruled ourselves. Nor can you look at inaction from the same point of view as others, unless you are prepared to change your habits and make them like theirs."

--- Alcibiades

#Ifs #Looks #Firsts

"We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European."

--- Alec Guinness

#Want #Eye #Expected

Deep, Inspirational Quotes about "Empires"