Quotes Tagged "empire"

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

How do you choose a successor? Look at her or his track record. A good successor would have a track record of successes - great grades, great schools, great successes at work and steady climb up the ladder. Throughout her or his career, there has been challenges which were overcame. It builds character, fortitude, and strength. - STRONG by Kailin Gow

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

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

I don't know if we would have stuff like 'Deadwood' and 'Boardwalk Empire' if 'Twin Peaks' had never happened.

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.' I really love that world. I love that style. I love all the actors on it.

Yeah, I love 'Boardwalk Empire.'

I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.

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

I am now a commander of the British Empire.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

I am the Empire at the end of the decadence.

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.