Famous quotes containing the words empire, johns, reign and/or collapse:
“An empire is an immense egotism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that’s what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.”
—Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894–1988)
“No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)
“At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.”
—Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919)