All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire.
Donald Kagan
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, ... MARK LAWRENCE They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. MARK LAWRENCE A Dark time comes. My time. If it offends you. Stop Me. MARK LAWRENCE This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither h... VOLTAIRE This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither h... VOLTAIRE The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire. VOLTAIRE The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. VOLTAIRE The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. VOLTAIRE Tell me this," I said. "My world. It's not like the one I read about in the oldest books. When they ... MARK LAWRENCE We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids ... MARK LAWRENCE Washington... has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, ... RICHARD MAYBURY After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed, "I don't
believe it!" His Jedi me... THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire. MICHAEL MANDELBAUM It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region si... HENRY KISSINGER At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it con... NORMAN DAVIES It would be far less interesting, after 'The Empire Strikes Back,' to have an hour-long movi... DAVID BENIOFF Tree of Paradise: Jewish Mosaics from the Roman Empire BROOKLYN MUSEUM The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequ... JAMES HANNAM Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back. ANDREW CUOMO Neither holy, nor Roman, nor Empire. VOLTAIRE My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. JOSEPH BARBERA The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splen... JAMES BUCHAN There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, betwee... IAIN SINCLAIR I always found him to be one of the people who helped the youngsters, especially at Empire Club. His... SIR EVERTON WEEKES To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde... GARY F EVANS... The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. DAVE BARRY After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generatio... GORE VIDAL to the victor go the spoils THE AMERICA When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father.... JIM HARRISON As a child there's a horror in discovering the limitations of the ones you love. The time you find t... MARK LAWRENCE The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world RONALD REAGAN If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another. ALAN COHEN All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL There's no sustenance in the past. VIOLETTE LEDUC Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword. CARLOS FUENTES Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the Un... MARGARET ATWOOD We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH If the teachings of the early Christians changed Rome and the entire Roman Empire, we can’t point ... SUNDAY ADELAJA She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more.... WILLIAM BLAKE Empire Square production finishes in about a month's time, so at the moment, right now, I'm ... DAVE ROWNTREE As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected. MARK RUTTE Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at ... WILLIAM MORRIS HUGHES Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at ... BILLY HUGHES To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE It's the transformation of a republic into an empire. I think America is dealing with that issue rig... BRUNO HELLER Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON America's over. Get out while you still can. J.M. PORUP The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave ... THOMAS HOBBES Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire. TONI BRAXTON There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the... HONORE DE BALZAC We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of... PETER JENNINGS Being Peruvian means to come from the farthest place possible to get to Europe. Peru is the land of ... MARIO TESTINO Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall. AL STEWART The ancient world found an end to anarchy in the Roman Empire, but the Roman Empire was a brute fact... BERTRAND RUSSELL Build an empire and chill BRITNEY WRIGHT The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN But I did love you then, only I didn't realize it because it was so strong, and I still do love you,... EMPIRE RECORDS I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in... ANTHONY MANN In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Truth is treason in the empire of lies. RON PAUL The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. I was set to confront the might of the imperial empire with an M-1 carbine and enough hate to topple... BOBBY SANDS Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv... ABIGAIL GEORGE If Wanda can control more than 20 per cent of the world's three most important film markets - th... WANG JIANLIN I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe... RICHARD FLANAGAN Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic fi... STEPHEN KINZER It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA Back in the days of the Roman Empire, when soldiers returned home from battle, the women laid palms ... BARBARA GRIFFIN I'm no Rambo or Terminator. I'm a Karate Kid who fights to defend family and neighbors. But the Unit... JORGE PEREZ Freeing the World to Death: Essays on the American Empire. WILLIAM BLUM I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated wit... VICTORIA AVEYARD When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could... WALTER RUSSELL MEAD We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. LAO-TZU It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning thei... GARRISON KEILLOR Imagine a 'Mission: Impossible'-style spy or infiltration mission into the core, the very he... JOHN KNOLL But also Ray's empire [his nightclub] is under threat. It's losing money. I know Louis's intention i... DAVID BERTHOLD Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse... ANTONY BEEVOR Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall. AL STEWART Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with... CHRISTOPHER HENRY DAWSON There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO Cyril's main interest seems to have been in the relationship between Christ's human and divine natur... KATE COOPER Were you there?” She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a child.” �... FRANCINE RIVERS That day I realized that at least for the time being, I was becoming Christian’s somebody. A... MELYSSA WINCHESTER The past ignorance has great lessons for us in our present day. Until we take real lessons from the ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. DAN QUISENBERRY
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