154 Quotes About Empires

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

Take your vitamins. Don't drink vodka. Get used to empire waistlines.

So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.