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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

The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with…

— Juan Enriquez

My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when…

— Timothy Leary

“if the mixing of peoples was the order of empires and the ‘unmixing of peoples’ the order of nation-states, what’s on the horizon?”

— Kapka Kassabova

“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 W. Said

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

How is the Empire?

— King George V

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

— Niall Ferguson

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

“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

“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