Quotes by Empires It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. Baron de Montesquieu empires greatness adventure 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. Baron Vaughn empires records hate The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.' Ben Hecht barbarians empires thinking The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. Benito Mussolini birth-rate empires fate The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly. Benjamin Carson empires moral together The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire. Bernard DeVoto empires united-states people Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not immeasurably superior to all your friends. Exercises of this sort, prolonged through several years, will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching, and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field. Bertrand Russell empires exercise years Monarch, thou wishest to cover thyself with glory; be the first to submit to the laws of thy empire. Bias of Priene empires government law 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. Bill Moyers empires radio media I would employ the wise and strong of the empire, using righteousness to lead them. In this way, nothing is impossible. Cao Cao empires strong wise A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire. Cardinal Richelieu empires lost sometimes I see a New York that is once again the empire state. Carl Paladino empires states new-york It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders. Carroll Quigley empires leaving might Imperial politics represents the conquest of domestic politics and the latter's conversion into a crucial element of inverted totalitarianism. It makes no sense to ask how the democratic citizen could 'participate' substantively in imperial politics; hence it is not surprising that the subject of empire is taboo in electoral debates. No major politician or party has so much as publicly remarked on the existence of an American empire. Chalmers Johnson empires elements party The demise of the American empire will be no more regretted than the demise of the Soviet empire. Chalmers Johnson soviet empires demise Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project. Chandra Talpade Mohanty empires feminist used Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment. Chris Christie dictator empires dream The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism Chris Hedges empires terrorism evil 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. Chris Kraus empires communism evil All power is indeed weak compared with that of the thinker. He sits upon the throne of his Empire of Thought, mightier far than they who wield material sceptres. Christian Nestell Bovee thrones empires thinking «1234567891011»