23 quotes found
“...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.”
“There are no moral obligations in the game of empire.”
“Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp”
“Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.”
“But there could be no doubt that greatness was seated within; greatness was passing, hidden, down Bond Street, removed only by a hand's-breadth from ordinary people who might now, for the first and...”
“It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.”
“It is not in the entrails of doves that the fall of empires can be read, but in the breeding of secrets and the multiplication of lies.”
“Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the Age of Intellect is the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve the problems of the world. Even on the low level of practical affa...”
“The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomen...”
“There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.”
“He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man.”
“Mapidr was but one man-and indeed, judging by rumors of his decrepit state near death, a weak, sickly man-but his creation, the empire, had taken on a life of its own. Killing the emperor would not...”
“Crowns are hourly tumbling.”
“Altogether, humankind had spread over less than one-eighth of the galaxy. Expansion was somewhat self-limiting. The U.S. had not been able to hold a colony at two hundred light-years distance. At f...”
“Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.”
“So hed done more of the same. Hed drunk to forget. Hed brawled to let off steam. Hed taken the dangerous jobs to fund his lifestyle and then began it all again. He wasnt some chivalrous nomad, sku...”
“If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious, but we pass quickly over their shortcomings or their defea...”
“The Empire must fall.”
“An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.”
