i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times but never to work. I always knew there were offices in there but the face never penetrated, really. You don't work in the Empire State Building. You propose in the Empire State Building. You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole city of New York.
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.
In the past, [medicalization]has been portrayed as something that doctors inflict on a passive and un-suspecting world - an expansion of the Medical Empire. But in reality, it seems that these reductionist bio-medical stories can appeal to us all, because complex problems often have depressingly-complex causes, and the solutions can be taxing, and unsatisfactory.
I got my first part in Silent Fall, 1994 - I guess I was 15 or 16 - which was really outrageous because I still knew nothing. I don't think I really learned how to land on my marks until after Empire Records in 1995, 'cause sometimes I'll see a shot in that film, and I'm like "Whoa, I just walked over to the corner. "
Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.
You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
The Soviet Union could not exist without the image of the empire. The image of the empire could not exist without the image of force. The USSR ended the moment the first hammer pounded the Berlin Wall.
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.
Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.
When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.
We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity. . For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
Cuba has not accepted the domain and imposition of an empire that has wanted to dominate us for over half a century [America].
Can one move an empire as if it were a house?