Quotes About Empire

The Bush Doctrine was created to justify ongoing and future interventions on the basis of America's "moral" responsibility since becoming the only superpower left standing. More succinctly, the Bush Doctrine is about pursuing a world empire.

Today both the Democratic and Republican parties support the expansive US Empire as well as the neoconservatives' agitation for a perpetual Global War on Terror. The disagreement we hear between the two parties is only regarding management style and is designed to use political failures and unintended consequences to enhance the power and influence of one party relative to the other.

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality…. That's not the way the world really works anymore…. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."

Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

The collapse of Marxist belief systems led to a massive decline of subjective well-being among the people of the former Soviet Empire, a decline that lasted for decades, leaving an ideological vacuum to be filled by rising religiosity and nationalism.

A democracy cannot rule an empire. Neither can one man, though empire may appear to presuppose monarchy. There is always an oligarchy somewhere, open or concealed.

Genghis Khan's 'arrow messengers' could travel 450 kilometers a day.

Gelukkig is het land dat door het paar van Caligula geregeerd wordt.

Not for-an empire would those lunatics have gone outside their minds. A madman's thoughts are just the usual ideas of a human being, except that they're hermetically sealed inside his head. The world never gets into his head, and that's the way he wants it. A sealed head is like a lake without an outlet, standing, stagnant.

As imoralidades do Império, bem mais contidas ou mais bem assimiladas ou ocultas, não servem como álibi para as da República, as quais parecem uma espécie de vingança dos "espíritos animais" enjaulados durante tantos anos.

That was the ace hidden up the sleeves of the Jardines, Mathesons and Dents of the world. Despite all their cacklings about Free Trade, the truth was that their commercial advantages had nothing to do with markets or trade or more advanced business practices – it lay in the brute firepower of the British Empire's guns and gunboats.

The old loyalties of India, the ancient ones – they'd been destroyed long ago; the British had built their Empire by effacing them.

The year 1453, therefore, marks the end of the Roman Empire. No one can fail to be amazed by the almost constant successes of the Ottoman armies, which developed in less than two centuries from a small group of fighters who waged war around their gazi in Eastern Anatolia into a force whose power reached the shores of the Bosphorus and the palace of Justinian's successors. How

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.

To break up the Roman Empire and to give a new order to the world is the first and principle historical task of the Germans.

Not only the priceless heritage of our fathers, of our seamen, of our Empire builders is being thrown away in a war that serves no British interests - but our alliance leader Stalin dreams of nothing but the destruction of that heritage of our fathers?

Ummayad dynasty

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

He should creep on by clandestine acts, and not contend in open battle according to the practice of those who excel in courage; he should secretly try many schemes, and thus stealthily extend his empire.

She is only a woman, the mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all!" (Pope Sixtus V referring to Elizabeth I).

Paul opposed Rome with Christ against Caesar, not because that empire was particularly unjust or oppressive, but because he questioned the normalcy of civilization itself, since civilization has always been imperial, that is, unjust and oppressive.

Christians must have understood, then, that to proclaim Jesus as Son of God was deliberately denying Caesar his highest title and that to announce Jesus as Lord and Savior was calculated treason.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute.