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Empires Quotes by John Boyd Orr
- Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
- 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…
- In recent times, European nations, with the use of gunpowder and other technical improvements in warfare, controlled practically the whole world. One, the British Empire,…
- Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
- 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…
- 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,…
More Empires Quotes
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of… — Amelia Barr
- The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry
- I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it. — Victoria Beckham
- The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art… — William Blake
- Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose… — William Jennings Bryan
- The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan
- When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio? — Julie Burchill
- Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke
- America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to… — George W. Bush
- To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler