Quotes tagged ‘Empire’

“I did not build an empire only to watch it turn to dust.”

— Jeffrey Addiss, Will Matthews, The Emperor, Jason Isaacs, imdb.com

“You see, Jussie Smollett is… gay, and he is black, not just French. Oh, it was a crazy story. Apparently, when he’s walking down the street late at night, two white men came out of the shadows, uh… with MAGA hats on and beat him up. Tied a rope around his neck, called him all kinds of niggas and… an…”

— Dave Chappelle, Himself, Dave Chappelle, imdb.com

“One German, a fine man. Two Germans, a bund. Three Germans, a war. One Englishman, an idiot. Two Englishmen, a club. Three Englishmen, an Empire.”

— Joseph E. Persico, David W. Rintels, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, Brian Cox, imdb.com

“[Maximus enters Marcus’s darkened tent] Marcus Aurelius: Tell me again, Maximus, why are we here? Maximus: For the glory of the Empire, sire. Five thousand of my men are out there in the freezing mud. Three thousand of them are bloodied and cleaved. Two thousand will never leave this place. I will n…”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Maximus Decimus Meridius, Russell Crowe, imdb.com

“The Empire, your parents, the Resistance, the Sith, the Jedi... let the past die. Kill it, if you have to. That's the only way to become what you are meant to be.”

— Rian Johnson, Kylo Ren, Adam Driver, imdb.com

“I’m far too busy to have a wife and children. What would I know about nappies and so forth? No, no – I prefer to build empires rather than families!”

— Cecil Rhodes, amazon.com

“I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.”

— Martha Stewart, oprah.com

“You know, the Brits had a way of—running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.”

— Pat Robertson, cbsnews.com

“The myriads that raise the cry of hunger wail in the greatest empire in the world.”

— Jack London, amazon.com

“Empire is formed not on the basis of force itself but on the basis of the capacity to present force as being in the service of right and peace.”

— Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, amazon.com