Empires Quote by Edward Gibbon Download Open image “The history of empires is the history of human misery.” — Edward Gibbon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empires Empires History History History Empires History Human Human Misery Humans Inspirational Misery Nature of man
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
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… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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![“[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be more compassionate, more understanding. And above all, you don't need all their trouble.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/751/elie-wiesel-341_billions_chinese-are-a-huge-empire-now-you-ll-soo_28398.jpg)