154 Quotes About Empires

Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

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

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

We should be I hope finally realizing what Vladimir Putin is. He's an old colonel, KGB, apparatchik, and he dreams of the restoration of the Russian empire.

My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So Far, so good.'

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.