Business Quote by Linda Colley

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

— Eric Alterman

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing…

— John Perkins

It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as…

— Carroll Quigley

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

My view as a historian is that the empire was an extractive, exploitative, racist and violent institution and that the history of empire is…

— David Olusoga

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

— Gad Saad

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were…

— Emily Greene Balch

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

“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of…

— Patricia Hampl

The history of empires is the history of human misery.

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Ralph Nader