Emperors Quotes

“In the 300 years of the crucifixion of Christ to the conversion of Emperor Constantine, polytheistic Roman emperors initiated no more than four general persecutions of Christians. Local administrators and governors incited some anti-Christian violence of their own. Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians. In contrast, over the course, of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions, to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, קיצור תולדות האנושות

“Emperors are vain and useless things.”
― Scott Westerfeld, Goliath

“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse.

And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“He died taking mercury pills that he thought would make him immortal," Tang Taizong said.

"So did you!" Qin Sho Haung yelped without looking at him.

"Allegedly! Sources differ!"

"You know what you did!”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor

“Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.”
― Amit Kalantri

“The emperor is just a man, after all.”
― Ken Liu, The Grace of Kings

“Megalomaniacs like Alistair Drummond have become emperors and führers, served by underlings who never questioned their most irrational orders.”
― Julian May, Orion Arm

“Where did the Picts live? Might they still be here? The Romans were so scared of them they built a wall. Two walls, by orders of two emperors after they successively failed to frighten them into passivity. And now the Celtic Supremicists. Is there nothing this part of the world will stop at to create its own agenda?”
― Deirdre Chapman, Badlands