Analog Quote by Saharon Shelah

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

I think that running empires as a way of ordering the world is a flawed model.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.

— Marianne Williamson

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

— Gad Saad

“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

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

— Ralph Nader

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

— Erin Morgenstern

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

— Gail Bradbrook