Quotes About Empire

It cannot be stressed enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire [95].

Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.

Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.

If Capone frequented even a tenth of the places that he's said to have, the notorious mobster hardly would have had time to build his Chicago crime empire, let alone run the thing.

But it didn't have the Great Enrichment because it didn't have the ideas flowing from a free people. Ideas, not savings, did it. Liberalism, not empire.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

With Heaven's aid I have conquered for you a huge empire. But my life was too short to achieve the conquest of the world. That task is left for you

Indeed, it was the British Empire that, in tandem with the American democratic capitalist system, created the global economy as we know it, based as it is on consumer-driven markets, rule of law, and the ideal—at least in North America, Europe, and a growing number of emerging nations—of free and open societies. Especially

The big advantage that the Mongols had over previous empire builders is that they themselves had nothing in the way of deeply ingrained ideas of politics, economics, or culture to spread abroad.

In the early 1990s, Trump made a disastrous foray into the gambling business in Atlantic City, and his empire nearly collapsed in multiple bankruptcies.

I think what we are witnessing in this country is the slow but inevitable fall of an empire that got too comfortable. In other words, when people are so interested in feathering their own nests and scamming on everybody else or being as macho as the person on the TV or movie screen and not caring about other human beings, of course things are going to start to crumble and collapse around them--just like it did with Rome or Britain or Egypt or the Aztecs.

An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust." -page 62

Now, if that's everything, I have an empire to build and a girl to chase.

Mais il avait oublié l'inventaire, il ne voyait pas son empire, ces magasins crevant de richesses. Tout avait disparu, les victoires bruyantes d'hier, la fortune colossale de demain. D'un regard désespéré, il suivait Denise, et quand elle eut passé la porte, il n'y eut plus rien, la maison devint noire.

The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.

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Nous avons maintenant l'occasion de donner à l'URSS sa guerre du Vietnam." De fait, Moscou a dû mener en Afghanistan, pendant presque dix ans, une guerre exténuante, qui a entraîné la démoralisation et finalement l'éclatement de l'empire soviétique. »

Un empire millénaire venait d'être aboli en notre présence, le monde musulman était en train de connaître un bouleversement majeur, qui allait avoir des conséquences sur toute l'étendue de la planète.

Voltaire would mock the empire as "neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire,

Quanto aos romanos, não eram essencialmente militares, pois que fizeram conquistas vantajosas e duráveis, ao contrário dos verdadeiros militares, que tomam tudo e nada conservam, como os franceses.

The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth.

Colonialism was not just an economic and political system, it was also a cultural system. Loyalty to empire was created through language, as well as through the church and the school. Both of these institutions taught the superiority of Europeans, their beliefs and their culture, and the inferiority of Africans, and, for that matter, of all non-British peoples

Did the fleet of the Empire have that ability—to destroy an entire solar system?" Yes, Emparak thought. They did it often enough.

You think you've uncovered a great mystery. You have no idea. You haven't even scratched the surface of the history of the Empire.