Quotes About The Rise And Fall Of Empires

#1. Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.

John Boyd Orr

#2. 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

#3. Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!

Iain M. Banks

#4. There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

Kevin J. Anderson

#5. Modern empires rise and fall not on armies, ideology, or violence, but on the instantaneous flow of capital. - Boris Karpov

Eric Van Lustbader

#6. Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.

Annalee Newitz

#7. I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Martin Scorsese

#8. 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

#9. Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

Wes Nisker

#10. The coin turns; where it falls, nobody knows.
The coin turns, empires rise and empires fall, men live and men die, babies scream and dead men sigh; the world changes but people are always and are never the same.

Claire North