Evil empire is a phrase used by U.S. President Ronald Reagan referring to the Soviet Union in 1983.
Evil Empire may also refer to:
- Evil Empire (album), a 1996 album by Rage Against the Machine
- Evil Empire Tour, the tour promoting the album
- Evil empire, a team nickname for the New York Yankees
- The Evil Empire: 101 Ways That England Ruined the World, a book written by Steven A. Grasse in 2007.
Famous quotes containing the words evil and/or empire:
“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“The “paper tiger” hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.”
—Eldridge Cleaver (b. 1935)