Empires Quotes - Page 5

• Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Would Be

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Geoffrey Matthews, Kelvin Everest (1989). “The Poems of Shelley: 1817-1819”, p.610, Pearson Education

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• It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

  Paul von Hindenburg

  People, Doe, Stakes

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• I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Real, Fate, Important

  Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.401, Delphi Classics

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• Pero una multitud de personas, incluso los doscientos millones del imperio chino, no pueden subsistir sin un gobierno civil.

  Ezra Stiles

  Government, Two, People

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• I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

  Sid Meier

  Respect, Games, Play

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• Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

  John Shimkus

  Land, People, Age

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• En todas las islas del mar Egeo, en casi todas las rocas estériles podría decirse, se encuentran abundantes huellas de un vasto imperio prehistórico; y si la raza no estaba muy avanzada en las artes de la civilización, en todo caso debió tener una gran fuerza numérica.

  James Theodore Bent

  Océano, Islas, Mar

  "Islas del Egeo: Las Cícladas, o la vida entre los griegos insulares".

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• Un suelo agotado por la larga cultura de los imperios paganos, iba a permanecer en barbecho durante un período aún más largo.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Mentira, Largo, Cultura

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). "The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume", p.12

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• I see a New York that is once again the empire state.

  Carl Paladino

  New York, States, Empire State

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• Mis últimos días en MGM fueron como la caída del Imperio Romano a cámara rápida.

  Joseph Barbera

  Fall, Lasts, Roman Civilization

  "Biografía / Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.

  Barbara Amiel

  Running, Country, Benefits

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• I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself

  Pedro el Grande

  Character, Historical, Able

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• Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Believe, Fighting, Exercise

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• On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

  Gore Vidal

  Debtors, United States, Literature

  Gore Vidal (1992). "Decadencia y caída del imperio americano".

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• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  Samuel Butler

  Beauty, Pain, Compassion

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• The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.

  James Risen

  Army, Dating, Mind

  James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.

  John Ralston Saul

  Lying, Ideas, Intellectual

  "Reflections of a Siamese Twin". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1997.

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• Cada ambicioso aspirante a imperio, aclara en el extranjero que está conquistando el mundo para traerle paz, seguridad y libertad, y que está sacrificando a sus hijos sólo por los propósitos más nobles y humanitarios. Eso es mentira; y es una mentira antigua, sin embargo las generaciones todavía se levantan y la creen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Believe, Son

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• Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire.

  Bias of Priene

  Government, Law, Firsts

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• Los cimientos del imperio son el arte y la ciencia. Si se eliminan o se degradan, el imperio deja de existir. El imperio sigue al arte y no viceversa como suponen los ingleses.

  William Blake

  Art, Aggravation, Vices

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Creadores de imperios, han luchado por cosas más grandes que coronas y asientos más altos que tronos.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Visión, Tronos, Coronas

  Herbert Kaufman (1910). "La lucha ganadora"

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• The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today.

  Linda Goodman

  Stars, Astrology, Shining

  Linda Goodman (1968). “Sun signs”

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• La magnanimidad en política no suele ser la sabiduría más verdadera; y un gran imperio y las mentes pequeñas van mal juntos.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Together, Politics

  Discurso "Sobre la conciliación con América" 22 de marzo de 1775

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• Ni que decir tiene que se negaron a someterse al Imperio, llevando a cabo una guerra de guerrillas tan persistente que los romanos abandonaron la esperanza de conquistar Escocia, y los Wee Free Men siguieron siendo a la vez wee y libres.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Men, Scotland

  Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). "El folclore del Mundodisco", Doubleday UK

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• Anarchy wears two faces, both Creator and Destroyer. Thus Destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators can then build a better world. Rubble, once achieved makes further ruins' means irrelevant. Away with our explosives, then! Away with our Destroyers! They have no place within our better world. But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable, let's drink their health, then meet with them no more.

  Alan Moore

  Mean, Two, Bombers

  "V for Vendetta". Book by Alan Moore, September 1988 – May 1989.

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