Quotes About Empire

In short, as the last part of this chapter reveals, the empire created the emperors – not the other way round. Governors

How far is it useful to see Roman history in terms of imperial biographies or to divide the story of the empire into emperor-sized (or dynasty-sized) chunks?

The German Empire had in its best time existed by grace of God and force of circumstances, more than by reason of a sound and perfect organism.

The Holy Roman Empire was now the German Empire. And,

it would have been the Reman Empire, instead of the Roman.

all hail to the Roman flounders

Tengo que resucitar imperiosamente antes de morir.

History isn't something you need to bring to life. History already is alive. We are history. History isn't politicians or kings and queens. History is everyone. It is everything. It's that coffee. You could explain much of the whole history of capitalism and empire and slavery just by talking about coffee. The amount of blood and misery that has taken place for us to sit here and sip coffee out of paper cups is incredible.

Few Westerners understand the post-Soviet soul like Lawrence Sheets. Whether it is his hair-raising stories of the region's myriad armed conflicts or the black humor with which he captures the moral and physical impoverishment of a collapsing empire, Sheets brilliantly condenses twenty tumultuous years into an eminently readable tale.

The present is an age of philosophy; and America, the empire of reason," said the American revolutionary Joel Barlow. 5 I aim to show that he was mostly right about that.

Meanwhile in the East, within weeks of abandoning their harvest fields, shops and lathes, newly mobilised Russian, Austrian and German soldiers met in huge clashes; tiny Serbia inflicted a succession of defeats on the Austrians which left the Hapsburg Empire reeling, having by Christmas suffered 1.27 million casualties at Serb and Russian hands, amounting to one in three of its soldiers mobilised.

A number of those sections of the old Empire which were most highly developed economically and most favored by natural resources and situation, in particular a majority of the wealthy towns went over to Protestantism in the sixteenth century The results of that circumstance favor the Protestants even today in their strug gle for economic existence.

In the empire of desert, water is the king and shadow is the queen.

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.

A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!

The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!

Neither does the British Empire for which Churchill fought with all his heart. And no one believes what they read in the newspapers any more.

This analogy can also be found in Jon Pahl, Empire of Sacrifice (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 20. [19]

T]he beast is not merely "Rome" . . . It is the inhuman, anti-human arrogance of empire which has come to expression in Rome—but not only there . . . All who support the cultural religion, in or out of church, however Lamb-like they may appear, are agents of the beast. All propaganda that entices humanity to idolize human empire is an expression of this beastly power that wants to appear Lamb-like.16

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

Designed to leave the world's economic destiny at the mercy of bankers and multinational corporations, Globalization is a logical extension of imperialism, a victory of empire over republic, international finance capital over democracy.

Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise, catering more to his peculiarities as proprietor and brand representative than to any bottom line or other performance measures.

Even though Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise,

Les sources philosophiques du poutinisme, si diverses soient-elles, reposent toutes sur deux piliers : l'idée d'empire et l'apologie de la guerre. C'est le noyau commun du soviétisme, de l'impérialisme "blanc" d'Ilyine, du conservatisme de Leontiev (dans certaines de ses œuvres), du panslavisme de Danilevski, de l'eurasisme, que ce soit celui des fondateurs ou celui de Douguine, aujourd'hui.