Command Quote by Ovid Download Open image “Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.” — Ovid ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Command Decay Empires Nations Turns
“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Empires, essentially, create order. In their absence, you don't end up with lots of happy, little nation-states full of people sitting around campfires singing… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“A nations path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.” — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. — Ovid Copy Share Image
A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The sea's vast depths lie open to the fish; Wherever the breezes blow the bird may fly; So to the brave man every land's… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Rare is the virtue that's not ruled by Fortune, That stands unshaken even when Fortune flees. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work? — Berthold Auerbach Copy Share Image
I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
