Quote by Emily Dickinson

“Death tore them apart. Immortality bound them together”

— Marie Symeou

“Defy the system by a gift to which it cannot respond except by its own death and its own collapse.”

— Politics Is Not A Banana

“He, therefore, who acquires such a State, if he mean to keep it, must see to two things; first, that the blood of the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“In the first place the process of disintegration was a slow one, for the whole tempo of life was slow and what might take…

— Eileen Power

“An empire that could have stood sound under a single sovereign was wrecked through being run by sundry rulers.”

— Andrew Chugg

“Death tore them apart. Immortality bound them forever.”

— Marie Symeou

“Something he had heard some wise man say. About the three stages of empire, the three generations. First came the conquerers, unstoppable in war.…

— Glen Cook

“The death of those considered expendable to achieve such goals only leaves blood to drown the earth with the memory of corruption and confusion.”

— Tami Egonu

“While one family blew apart, the other flourished. It seemed that the immortal soul could be a maker and a destroyer.”

— Beck Sherman

“The collapsing of an empire. This changing word moves inexorably on. Thoughts bubble and the stiller the mind the more palpable the dazzling torrent…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Maybe, when there's no repairing what we've wrecked and we have to navigate around the sharp, broken parts of our own destruction, that's when…

— Alexis Bass

“Meanwhile, we have carved out a place for ourselves among the dead; the glittering pinnacles of commerce rise along the skyline, their foundations sunk…

— Catharine Arnold