The United States is now The Empire. There isn't an empire; there's The Empire, and that empire is the United States.
I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone.
The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament, the closer drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this Babylonian Empire, and with it the hour of freedom for my German-Austrian people.
When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires. ' It's the mother of vicious circles.
The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.
Empire breeds terrorism.
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.
As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave.
People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.
Allah Himself has ordered that any person, any nation, any empire whose evil outweighs its good, there is a force in our universe that moves that individual, that nation, that empire out of existence.
You can shoot a film in New York without seeing the Empire State Building. Or Starbucks. . . although the latter is much less realistic.
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.