Top 305 Empire Quotes

I started with the book ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall’, a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan’s consistency: his absolute conviction that the Soviet Union – the only competing world empire at the time – was bound to collapse!

If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.

Until the absorption of the Polish territories, the Russian Empire had had practically no Jews, and it was uniquely ill-equipped to handle this new addition to its ethnic and religious mix.

I know it’s a cliche. But, like, literally, I want to create an empire of dozens of talent under me to take my power and multiply it so that I become bigger than myself.

Yeah, I love ‘Boardwalk Empire.’

I’ve spoken before on how the art of storytelling has been lost a bit. I definitely feel ‘Empire’ is helping to reprogram us back to that place where we pay attention and invest emotionally in the records and the artists.

My family and I have been blessed with good fortune in the world of business. We’ve created quite a net worth. My children, two boys, have more money than they will ever need, and they aren’t empire builders.

I think people respond to truth. ‘Straight Outta Compton’ made $60 million over the weekend, right? That’s not just a black audience. ‘Empire’ grew every single week. That’s not just a black audience. Black culture is American culture, you know what I mean? They’re becoming more and more one in the same.

We’ve built the largest empire in the history of the world. It’s been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It’s only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire’s bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.

Empire and liberty.

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.

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.

God has blessed me with something. One day, I do see myself being like Jimmy Iovine. I’m trying to build an empire.

A lot of people make hay about ‘American Idol’s ratings and ‘Empire.’

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire – tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained – has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.

England produced Shakespeare, and the British Empire the six-shilling novel.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

I’ve always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward’s reign.

The story of the British empire helps to explain the roots of most British people: white, black, and Asian.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.

Well, the Empire State was about 40′ high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2′ high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

It would be far less interesting, after ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ to have an hour-long movie in between ‘Empire’ and ‘Return of the Jedi,’ where Luke is training. It’s so much cooler to cut from end of ‘Empire’ to beginning of ‘Return,’ where he’s become the Jedi.

It’s a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire… only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

How is the Empire?

The history of the British empire, the chapter of our national story that would have explained to my classmates why a child born in Nigeria was sat among them, was similarly missing from the curriculum.

I decided I was going to play Cleopatra as someone with a brain. She’s kept Egypt, this tiny country, in a balance of power with the almighty Roman empire, and she’s done it through force of personality.

The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it’s usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it’s a metaphor for empire and the end of empire.

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

Everyone wants to come to Bengaluru and establish an empire. In the process, the most neglected people are Kannadigas, who are losing their land and identity. To protect our people, we need a regional party and not for anything else.

In the Great Mongol Empire, Mongols governed by a written law called the ‘Ih Zasag,’ which is translated as ‘the Great Order.’ It was an era when the Mongols strove to establish a new world order, thus, justice, peace and cooperation in their relations with other states and peoples.

I am the Internet guy. But the reason the ‘Onion News Empire’ was such an easy decision to make is I so trust that side of the fence now.

I want to have an empire. I like being in front of the camera, performing – but I would like to get to a place where I’m also executive producing and bringing other people along. People of all different walks of life, highlighting their voices.

The main motivation was to explore the empire’s falling. I mean ‘Duck City’ is like an allegory for the Western Empire or the United States. And I was thinking what happens when it falls and declines like the Roman Empire.

Before I finished my undergraduate degree, I found ‘TYT’ and dedicated myself to helping it grow into a digital news empire.

In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh… We are finding our way out from under the debris of the ‘Red Empire’ slowly and tentatively.

There’s no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn’t exist.

I want to have an empire. I want to make my own stuff.

I really like the Nineties! I want to bring back more of the Nineties, like the ‘Spice Girls’, ‘Empire Records’, Chloe Sevigny. I don’t think anyone really gave it enough credit.

West Orange, where I grew up, is the hometown of Ian Ziering from ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ Scott Wolf from ‘Party of Five,’ David Cassidy from the ‘Partridge Family,’ and Mike Pitt of ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and ‘Dawson’s Creek.’

The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population.

As I made my way through ‘On Line,’ the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition ‘about line’ at MoMA, I found myself thinking, ‘Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!’ In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.

There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

There can never be a single, satisfactory comprehensive account of the ‘history of the British empire.’