Quotes About Empire

Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.

In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire, brought under one government a quarter of the earth and its inhabitants.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

The only reason an empire ever fights wars is to maintain empire.

Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF?

Sikh and Muslim Punjabis, Pashtuns and Gurkhas joined the British in the slaughter

Recruit new soldiers for the Empire's armies from rural Punjab but underscore every recruit's distinct religion and caste

the Empire assured Muslims and other minority 'elements in India's national life' that Britain would never allow 'their coercion into submission' to a majority government

The Empire seemed to be giving a veto on India's political advance to Jinnah, the princes and Ambedkar.

Though Dyer and O'Dwyer had destroyed love for the Empire, desire for its titles and positions survived in Punjab.

The word for a lion, 'Singh' was also, as we have seen, the name used by the Mughal empire's Rajput mansabdars.

Sikhs and Punjabi Muslims mainly, but also Dogras and Gurkhas, had enlisted on the Empire's behalf.)

If the price of peace on India's streets was capitulation to the Empire and its threats, Gandhi was not willing to pay that price.

Goods and cash worth crores of rupees lie buried to my knowledge in the palace of my late father-in-law (Qamruddin) besides heaps of gold and silver stored inside the ceiling. Complete disagreement exists among the emperor, his wazirs and nobles. If you invade India this time, the Indian Empire with all its riches of crores will fall into your hands.

In the 1840s, these three armies contained around 40,000 whites and 250,000 Indians. No white served under an Indian, and the highest paid Indian earned less than the lowest paid Briton.

the speed with which the British left after announcing Independence and Partition may have been, in his words, 'the most contemptible single act in the annals of the Empire' (p 77).

the address urged the Empire through its Viceroy to remember 'not merely' the Muslims' 'numerical strength' but also their 'political importance', their service 'in defence of the Empire', and their past position, lasting until 'a little more than a hundred years ago', as India's rulers.

the Empire had enabled Sayyid Ahmed's ideological successors to walk off with the prize of a separate Muslim electorate in India as a whole.

Ordered to open fire at unarmed protesters, Indian soldiers of the Empire's Garhwal Rifles, staged a satyagraha of their own and refused.

when World War I started, and Turkey aligned itself with the Empire's foe, Germany, India's Muslims felt even more conflicted.

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it... Beware of me, it says, but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.

Ghalib's poem was composed against the backdrop of the decline of the Mughal Empire. His home territory, the Indo-Gangetic plain, once ruled by a single monarch, was now split between contending chiefdoms and armies. Brother was fighting brother; unity and federation were being undermined. But

Yes, and for all his bluster about making D'ni great again, he had forgotten precisely what it was that had made the D'ni extraordinary. The reason why their empire had lasted for so long. It was not their power, nor the fact that they had once ruled a million worlds, it was their restraint, their astonishing humility.

Coming to Washington may be likened to coming to Rome during the Roman Empire.