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Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away. -- William Watson
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. -- Joseph Chamberlain
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind. -- Noah Feldman
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. -- John Boyd Orr
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. -- Marcus Aurelius
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
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
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
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
Empires and churches are born under the sun of death. -- Albert Camus
Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing. -- Wes Nisker
The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come. -- Joseph Chamberlain
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come." -- Joseph Chamberlain
Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within. -- Lionel
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires-past Powers only the Albanian "goes on for ever." -- Edith Durham
I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished. -- Sid Meier
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
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
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. -- Frank Herbert
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
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
But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as they will, can last for centuries. Those that try to control the everyday lives of their people are much harder to sustain." -- Paul Kriwaczek
Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires. -- Paul Harris
A great empire and little minds go ill together. -- Edmund Burke
The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire. -- Joseph Sobran
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. -- Pythagoras
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. -- Voltaire
An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy -- Woodrow Wilson
The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high. -- J. William Fulbright
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. -- Samuel Butler
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. -- Benjamin Franklin
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. -- Edmund Burke
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. -- Martin Scorsese
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
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
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
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
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless. -- Robert D. Kaplan
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake. -- Paul von Hindenburg
... the reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British Empire. This would not be of any benefit to Germany. -- Franz Halder
You know, 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. -- Doris Lessing
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. -- William Blake
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. -- Benito Mussolini
I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama. -- Joan Collins
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. -- Woodrow Wilson
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage. -- Felix Dennis
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. -- Josiah Warren
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
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman. -- George W. Bush
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? -- Orson F. Whitney
Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall. -- John Berger
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time. -- Howard Rheingold
Great empires are not maintained by timidity. -- Tacitus
We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic. -- Donald Rumsfeld
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. -- John Dryden
Stern men with empires in their brains. -- James Russell Lowell
All empires are created of blood and fire. -- Pablo Escobar
All empires become arrogant. It is their nature. -- Edward Rutherfurd
Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall. -- Marisha Pessl
Fate of empires depends on the education of youth -- Aristotle
All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history. -- Ralph Nader
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. -- Edward Thorndike
Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires. -- Tobsha Learner
Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history. -- Janet Wallach
The history of empires is the history of human misery. -- Edward Gibbon
All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things. -- Erin Morgenstern
As yourselves your empires fall, and every kingdom hath a grave. -- William Habington
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. -- Dana Gioia
My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow; -- Andrew Marvell
People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway. -- Robert Wyatt
Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls. -- Janet Morris
The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires. -- Joseph Conrad
Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. -- Samuel Johnson
Dyspepsy is the ruin of most things: empires, expeditions, and everything else. -- Thomas de Quincey
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. -- Eric S. Raymond
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires. -- Sallust
All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations. -- Niall Ferguson
There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style. -- Chuck Berry
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity. -- Emile M. Cioran
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey. -- Ovid
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. -- Ezra Pound
Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight. -- John Armstrong
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires. -- Joni Mitchell
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. -- Maureen Dowd
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. -- Baron de Montesquieu
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. -- Milan Kundera
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water. -- Ani DiFranco
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What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires. -- John Gresham Machen
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires. -- James G. Stavridis
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll. -- Ozzy Osbourne
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root. -- Edward Young
The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse. -- Eric Alterman
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities. -- Michel de Montaigne
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. -- John Lothrop Motley
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. -- Edward Gibbon
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality. -- Adam Smith
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
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. -- Edward Gibbon
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 Said
Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent. -- Nicolas Maduro
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
The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed. -- William Mackergo Taylor
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
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities. -- Wellington Webb
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go. -- H. Rider Haggard
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future. -- Edward M. Lerner
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

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