Aim Quote by Frank Herbert

“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost…

— Frank Herbert

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control…

— Edward Said

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

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

— Gad Saad

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

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

— Erin Morgenstern

“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

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it…

— Edward Said

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

We don't seek empires.We're not imperialistic.

— Donald Rumsfeld

“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

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

— Ralph Nader