Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Carson

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.

Richard Branson

Virtually every part of the empire will have some form of e-commerce facility by the end of 1999, from the largest company, Virgin Atlantic, to one of the smallest, Virgin Bride.

Rudyard Kipling

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Mark Romanek

You can have it all, my empire of dirt. I will let you down.

Ian Shepherdson

It is disappointing in the wake of the huge rise in the Empire State survey -- the indexes are usually at similar levels,

Rita Ora

I have a few properties, some in the U.K., some in the States, some in Kosovo. It's a nice little empire - I'm trying to create something so my family can be all right.

Edward Gibbon

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Edward Said

We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)

Kate Hutton

I would say it's a very typical Imperial Valley swarm.

Jane Fonda

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

James Henry Breasted

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

George Orwell

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

Jerry Rubin

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

Pankaj Mishra

Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.

Angus King

I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

Tommy Douglas

We are not anti-American. we do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking.