Empire

Empire

The term empire derives from the Latin imperium (power, authority). Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples (ethnic groups) united and ruled either by a monarch (emperor, empress) or an oligarchy.

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Famous quotes containing the word empire:

    “Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
    Consider the Empire and Gandhi.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    “The foundation of empire is art & science. Remove them or degrade them, & the empire is no more. Empire follows art & not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)