Top 100 Quotes About Empires
#1. Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.
Wes Nisker
#2. Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#3. In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
John Boyd Orr
#4. One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'
Johan Galtung
#5. IN OUR SOCIETY, MARCUS, the most admired men are those who build bridges, skyscrapers, and empires. But in reality, the proudest and most admirable are those who manage to build love. Because there is no greater or more difficult undertaking.
Joel Dicker
#6. In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind
Michael Foot
#7. Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.
Ovid
#8. For the creation of the mechanicals was a seismic event, an earth-rending convulsion that left nothing untouched: palaces, thrones, and empires, yes, but also the way men and women thought about themselves and their relationship to the world, to God, even their own bodies.
Ian Tregillis
#9. All interstellar empires rose and fell, ultimately, on their ability to deliver on this one simple, unexciting thing: logistics.
John Jackson Miller
#10. The handful of millennia separating the Agricultural Revolution from the appearance of cities, kingdoms and empires was not enough time to allow an instinct for mass cooperation to evolve.
Yuval Noah Harari
#11. All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.
Niall Ferguson
#12. Since around 200 BC, most humans have lived in empires. It seems likely that in the future, too, most humans will live in one. But this time the empire will be truly global. The imperial vision of dominion over the entire world could be imminent.
Yuval Noah Harari
#13. The European empires did so many different things on such a large scale, that you can find plenty of examples to support whatever you want to say about them. You
Yuval Noah Harari
#14. Father, I serve the Messiah, the Christ. Not any Caesar. His kingdom is not of this world, and no man need fight for it. All empires will pass away, but Christ lives. He is love and peace, and his kingdom will last forever.
David Holdsworth
#15. Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#16. North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.
Frank Schaeffer
#17. Take care, father," said Bulloch gently, "that what you call murder and robbery may not really be war and conquest, those sacred foundations of empires, those sources of all human virtues and all human greatness.
Anatole France
#18. Do you know why empires fall? Because they can no longer believe their own lies.
Fred Van Lente
#19. It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting - corruption and favoritism, mostly - endemic to the system.
Iain Banks
#20. Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires
Tobsha Learner
#21. When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.
Doris Lessing
#22. British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to
Stephen E. Ambrose
#23. The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.
Publilius Syrus
#24. The day humans cease playing with their imaginations, is the day the empires fall!
Anonymous
#25. The future was glorious once. It was filled with sleek silver spaceships, lunar colonies, and galactic empires. The horizon seemed within reach; we could almost grasp the stars if we would but try.
Kevin J. Anderson
#26. And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history - money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery - the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
C.S. Lewis
#27. Empires collapse,
Civilizations disappear,
Health deteriorates
And bodies turn to ash,
But life will always go on
Mouloud Benzadi
#28. Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
John Boyd Orr
#29. Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
Edward Young
#30. Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.
Lionel
#31. Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person's face that anything changes. All empires are hungry cannibals ...
Rawi Hage
#32. Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
Marisha Pessl
#33. but the force of traditions, as in all crumbling empires, grows proportionately with the explicit revelation, in the machinery of government and commerce alike, of the preponderant action of all principles of inertia...
Julien Gracq
#34. The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon.
Conrad Black
#35. I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Martin Scorsese
#37. The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.
Niall Ferguson
#38. (We're in favor of independence as long as it's in other people's empires, not in our own.)
Noam Chomsky
#39. Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
D. A. Pennebaker
#40. She had the resigned indifference of extreme old age. Buildings and empires rose and fell. It snowed. It stopped snowing. People came and went. One day death would come for her, and she would not find that surprising either, and she would not care -
Robert Harris
#41. Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
John Boyd Orr
#42. For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
Sallust
#43. Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
John Dryden
#44. But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, woman, is perpetual, essential; she will go on for ever.
John Wyndham
#45. I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
Isaac Rosenberg
#46. Afghanistan - where empires go to die.
Mike Malloy
#47. Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.
Frank Herbert
#48. Don't be so foolish to believe empires are built on stone. They're on bamboo stilts at best.
Exurb1a
#49. The vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
Edward Gibbon
#51. Throughout his career, Jobs liked to see himself as an enlightened rebel pitted against evil empires, a Jedi warrior or Buddhist samurai fighting the forces of darkness. IBM was his perfect foil. He cleverly cast the upcoming battle not as a mere business competition,
Walter Isaacson
#52. Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing John Lennon's "Imagine." What you end up with is civil war, anarchy.
Niall Ferguson
#53. May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!
Joseph Warren
#54. I hate the corpses of empires, they stink as nothing else. They stink so badly that I cannot believe that even in life they were healthy.
Rebecca West
#55. That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia Barr
#56. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment.
Robin Sloan
#57. Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
#58. Home ownership,and the vast consumption of materials and energy it requires, forces some pretty exploitative foreign policy manoeuvres. This makes people in those resource-rich places as mad as natives were at the practices of the colonial empires exploiting them two hundred years ago.
Douglas Rushkoff
#59. Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
Jack Schwartz
#60. We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.
Ani DiFranco
#62. Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
William Jennings Bryan
#63. I have learned so many things over the long years," he whispered ... "I've taken tribute from sovereigns and witnessed the end of empires. But you are my best teacher.
Thea Harrison
#64. When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
Ezra Pound
#66. But if men are the makers and breakers of empires, then women are the makers and breakers of men.
Kate Quinn
#67. Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
Noah Feldman
#68. For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory ...
Zachary Taylor
#69. All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.
Robert Kiyosaki
#70. Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.
William Blake
#71. [In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.
Edward Gibbon
#72. Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.
David Korten
#73. All who have meditated upon the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depend upon the education of youth.
Aristotle.
#74. I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.
Colin Quinn
#75. I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.
Don McCullin
#76. All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle.
#77. Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
King Hussein I
#78. Downfall? How ominous you make it sound. There is no downfall being plotted. Merely a question being asked. (Callie)
Aye, and empires have been splintered apart over the mere utterance of a single word. (Sin)
Kinley MacGregor
#79. We find a combination of three themes that would recur in the ideology of all successful empires: a dualistic worldview that pits the good of empire against evildoers who oppose it; a doctrine of election that sees the ruler as a divine agent; and a mission to save the world.128
Karen Armstrong
#80. Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#81. I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.
Niall Ferguson
#82. While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The Rights of Woman merit some attention.
Robert Burns
#83. Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.
(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)
Edward W. Said
#84. Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
Sam Walter Foss
#85. Who cares if virtually the entire world views Obama's drone attacks as unjustified and wrong? Who cares if the Muslim world continues to seethe with anti-American animus as a result of this aggression? Empires do what they want.
Glenn Greenwald
#86. The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
Joseph Chamberlain
#87. All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ...
Michael Moorcock
#88. Nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.
Robin Sloan
#90. Yet, in fact, religion has been the third great unifier of humankind, alongside money and empires.
Yuval Noah Harari
#91. Words alike make the destiny of empires and of individuals. Ambition, love, hate, interest, vanity, have words for their engines, and need none more powerful. Language is a fifth element - the one by which all the others are swayed.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#92. Don't underestimate the ripple effect of what you do. These kinds of actionshave toppled empires.
Leila Janah
#93. Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.
John Armstrong
#94. Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they extorted upon the landscape.
Max Barry
#95. We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
Edward W. Said
#96. What could be more entrancing than a carefree nomadic existence camping, moving, exploring strange places and the ruins of forgotten empires, sleeping under canvas or the open sky, and giving no thought to the conventions and restriction of the modern world?
M.M. Kaye
#97. You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.
Violet Trefusis
#98. The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.
Camille Paglia
#99. Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.
Marcus Aurelius
#100. May peace rule the universe; may peace rule in kingdoms and empires; may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates; may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.
Virchand Gandhi
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