Empire Strikes

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or strikes:

“An empire is an immense egotism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The origin of storms is not in clouds,
our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
spillways free authentic power:
dead John Brown’s body walking from a tunnel
to break the armored and concluded mind.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)