Empires Quote by Robert Wyatt Download Open image “People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.” — Robert Wyatt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Empires People Want
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 Copy Share Image
All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
In fact, when the fires of empire get hidden, they still stay burning underneath the moss, seething away. This is true with a lot… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse. — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
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 Said Copy Share Image
There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image