Accomplished Quote by Iain Banks

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the…

— Felix Dennis

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

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

Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants…

— Yvon Chouinard

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for…

— William Blake

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

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on…

— Niall Ferguson

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

— Gad Saad

“It is a sequence familiar in the capitals of other great empires: the extreme inequality created as loot from abroad pours in; the corruption…

— Andrew Marr

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

— Donald Rumsfeld

“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 W. Said

Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages…

— Iain Banks