Break Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

— Havelock Ellis

“All empires fall, eventually.” “But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them…

— Max Barry

All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

— Erin Morgenstern

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

— Ai Weiwei

Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

— Lionel

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and…

— Dar Williams

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal…

— John Boyd Orr

“Almost all empires were created by force, but none can be sustained by it. Universal rule, to last, needs to translate force into obligation.…

— Henry Kissinger

We live in a much more interconnected world now, and that means that it's more fragile than we realize.

— Paul Romer

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

— Ralph Nader

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

— Paul Harris

“But belief in a system cannot be sustained for ever. Empires based solely on power and domination, while allowing their subjects to do as…

— Paul Kriwaczek