Quotes About Emperor

Los soldados estaban aún en ascuas por la despiadada guerra civil, el país se hallaba empobrecido y desordenado, y los indios eran sometidos a trabajos forzados. Nuestro emperador Carlos V había ordenado en sus reales cédulas tratar a los nativos con respeto, evangelizarlos y civilizarlos por la bondad y las buenas obras, pero ésa no era la realidad.

mientras en España el emperador Carlos V promulgaba las Leyes Nuevas, en que confirmaba que los indios eran súbditos de la Corona y advertía a los encomenderos que no podían obligarlos a trabajar o darles castigo físico, que debían contratarlos por escrito y pagarles en moneda dura.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

I'd quite like to be in Caligula's court - living in the back room somewhere and just being able to observe.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone.

trusting that Nero would be able to read his mind.

Nero was mindful of his health, spending at least an hour a day at the gym or in the pool.

The Inka goal was to knit the scores of different groups in western South America—some as rich as the Inka themselves, some poor and disorganized, all speaking different languages—into a single bureaucratic framework under the direct rule of the emperor.

Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, was well into his sixties. His wife, the Empress Elisabeth, had been assassinated years before by an anarchist, his only son had died in a murder-suicide pact, and now the Archduke, his heir, was dead. The fate of Europe might well depend on what a bitter old man decided.

Cassie Mackin was the first, if not the only, member of the press to point out that the emperor had no clothes. She opened her report by observing that "the Nixon campaign is, for the most part, a series of speeches before closed audiences, invited guests only.

The fear of the violent and the lawless is no less a tyranny than the edicts that come from the Emperor's throne.

I rule the Empire now. Not some long-dead Emperor; certainly not you. the only treason is defiance of my orders.

But she wasn't a serving girl in a Phorliss cantina this time, or a come-up flector for a swoop gang on Caprioril, or even a hyperdrive mechanic stuck in the backwater of the Ison Corridor. She was second in command to the most powerful smuggler in the galaxy, with the kind of resources and mobility she hadn't had since the death of the Emperor. [p] The kind of resources that would let her find Luke Skywalker again. And kill him

It's sort of like coming home … only it isn't. I've never really stood here and just looked at the city like this. The Emperor... I don't think he ever saw the Imperial City as people and lights. - Mara Jade

According to Chinese tradition, the first cup of tea was brewed by the emperor Shen Nung, whose reign is traditionally dated to 2737–2697 BCE.

Honor everyone. Lovea the brothers and sisters.b Fear God.c Honor the emperor.

Trying to kill your own father, dueling with a clone of yourself, serving the Dark Side for the Emperor. If that's what it takes to be a powerful Jedi, maybe I don't want the job!

This table once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte," he said. "You mean the Napoleon we read about in our history book?" Staci asked. "The guy with his hand under his coat scratching his bellybutton?" Wendy added.

Political correctness in its most literal sense set in early among the Ottomans: their chroniclers mention neither Orhan's alliance with the Christian Byzantine emperor John VI, nor his marriage to Princess Theodora.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.

an Emperor says, "I will kill you if you do not come", and the man bursts into a laugh and says, "You never told such a falsehood in your life, as you tell just now. Who can kill me? Me you kill, Emperor of the material world! Never! For I am Spirit unborn and undecaying; never was I born and never do I die; I am the Infinite, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient; and you kill me, child that you are!" That is strength, that is strength!