Empires Quotes

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

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.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

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.

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.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

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

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.

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.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

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.

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

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.

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.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

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.

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.

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.

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.