Empires Quote by John Armstrong

Who shall contend with time,--unvanquished time, the conqueror of conquerors and lord of desolation?

— Henry Kirke White

There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

— Chuck Berry

“The old vicious cycle of empires threatened to repeat itself, the old story of the many led by the few. Always it had come,…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

— Al Stewart

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

— Erin Morgenstern

“Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged time of…

— J.M. Coetzee

“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

Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A time is one’s own, Eva, when oneself and one’s peers take the same things for granted, without thinking about it. Likewise, a man…

— David Mitchell

“More powerful than kings and armies is an idea whose time has come to move.”

— Carrie Chapman Catt

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

— Wes Nisker

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