Anti war Quote by Eric Alterman

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

— Ralph Nader

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

— Gad Saad

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

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

— Erin Morgenstern

Empire in the past was always a far harsher and much more accident-prone business than conventional history books imply. And the costs of these…

— Linda Colley

It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their…

— Mickey Rourke

It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the…

— Iain Banks

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

— Edward Gibbon

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed…

— Arthur Henderson

History more often records the brilliant successes and spectacular defeats of contending forces than the effect of war on the common people.

— Mildred Cable