Faith Quote by Paul Kriwaczek

“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

“Everything that rises will fall. Empires, societies, governments. None of them lasts forever. Why? Because even though they are the products of change, they…

— Victoria Schwab

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control…

— Edward W. Said

“Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it…

— Edward W. Said

The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power…

— Mark Danner

“Every empire grow until its reach exceeds its grasp”

— James S.A. Corey

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 do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost…

— Frank Herbert

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always…

— John Boyd Orr

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

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

— Edward Rutherfurd

“only when the weak have decent reasons to defend the system that reproduces their subservience does the empire of the powerful”

— Yanis Varoufakis