Quotes About Emperor

Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.

You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me." The

A smile touched Piter's lips. "And to think, Baron: the Padishah Emperor believes he's given the Duke your spice planet. How poignant.

I told my nephew of the great esteem our Emperor holds for you, Count Fenring," the Baron said. And he thought: Mark him well, Feyd! A killer with the manners of a rabbit—this is the most dangerous kind.

Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides." The

What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent—he solves." "How?" "In the simplest way: he decides." "Keeping his friends and destroying his enemies.

One can contemplate the Emperor and his powers comfortably if one remembers that all things are finite

I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage. You must remember that he was an emperor, father-head of a dynasty that reached back into the dimmest history. But we denied him a legal son. Was this not the most terrible defeat a ruler ever suffered? My mother obeyed her Sister Superiors where the Lady Jessica disobeyed. Which of them was the stronger? History already has answered.

He hates his God Emperor! No . . . he fears him. But don't we always hate what we fear?

Order was not restored until the emperor and four of his five sons had been apprehended and their severed heads displayed to the crowd in the Hippodrome

was forbidden throughout the empire to produce or to display images of Christ

Heraclius made a humiliating offer of peace.

Heraclius entered Persia from the north and the Sassanid Empire imploded.

In 260 CE, the emperor Valerian was taken prisoner, along with much of his army, while campaigning against them.

Heraclius entered Jerusalem on 21 March 630, at the head of a solemn procession

a sense Heraclius was the last emperor to rule over the people who still called themselves 'Romans'.

lado amargo, incómodo e irónico: la independencia acaba degradada por un ridículo emperador, la reforma liberal desemboca en la dictadura y la revolución acaba en manos de burócratas autoritarios. Me temo que la transición a la democracia acabe naufragando gracias a un demagogo populista

When the Spaniard Pero Tafur visited, he found even the emperor's palace "in such a state that both it and the city show well the evils which the people have suffered and still endure … the city is sparsely populated … the inhabitants are not well clad, but sad and poor, showing the hardship of their lot," before adding with true Christian charity, "which is, however, not as bad as they deserve, for they are a vicious people, steeped in sin.

It was the possibilities of this site – what it offered for trade, defense, and food – that made Constantinople the key to imperial destinies and brought so many armies to its gate. "The seat of the Roman Empire is Constantinople," wrote George Trapezuntios, "and he who is and remains Emperor of the Romans is also the Emperor of the whole earth.

The Chatcaava consumed themselves and others with their savagery, and the Eldritch dwindled into elegant irrelevance... and ignored by them both, save when it suited them, the Pelted labored on, creating these minor miracles out of spare parts and sheer ingenuity. What had the Emperor said once? The creed of your Alliance: we are born weak, therefore let us make strength from bits of metal and philosophy.

Christendom is something quite different from Christianity, being the administrative or power structure, based on the Christian religion and constructed by men. (...) The founder of Christianity was, of course, Christ. The founder of Christendom I suppose could be named as the Emperor Constantine.

The Emperor protects.' 'So does ferrocrete, ma'am.' Celestine: The Living Saint

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire. And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power, is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical.