Empires Quote by John Boyd Orr

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

— Ralph Nader

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

“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

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

— John Boyd Orr

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

— Edward Rutherfurd

Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

— Lionel

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

— Gad Saad

“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

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 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

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

— Eric Alterman