Cases Quote by Mickey Rourke

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

— Erin Morgenstern

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

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

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

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

— Noah Feldman

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

— Edward Rutherfurd

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

— Ralph Nader

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

— Gad Saad

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

So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for…

— Eddie Izzard

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

— Al Stewart

With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our…

— Denis Waitley