Empires Quote by Samuel Johnson

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

— Gad Saad

Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's…

— Plutarch

“Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes: financial frauds in which previous investors are paid returns out of new investors'…

— Paul Kriwaczek

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

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

— Mason Cooley

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on…

— Niall Ferguson

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

— Erin Morgenstern

Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages…

— Iain Banks

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

— Juvenal

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

— Les Brown

Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for…

— William Blake

“The empires built by bankers and merchants in frock coats and top hats defeated the empires built by kings and noblemen in gold clothes…

— Yuval Noah Harari