The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. . . . are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.
Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise. . . no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.
Reason, which is the glory of our nature, is destined eventually, in the progress of future ages, to overturn the empire of superstition.
I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.
Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
If one's fated to be born in Caesar's Empire, let him live aloof, provincial, by the seashore.
Don’t underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.
It is alarming. . . to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.
One of the enduring lessons of history is that whenever an empire becomes insular to 'protect' itself, intellectual decline and cultural intolerance are sure to follow.
En France particulie' rement, les mots ont plus d'empire que les ide es. In France particularly, words reign over ideas.
All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.
The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.
Hillary Clinton has an entire media empire that constantly demonizes Donald Trump, fails to point out several signs of illness by her.
First of all I love Empire Records and That Thing You Do and all the movies he did from that era. He hates when I bring that up.