Society Quote by Terry Goodkind

“Our civilization appears to’ve fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without…

— Frank Herbert

“In the lives of emperors there is a moment which follows pride in the boundless extension of the territories we have conquered, and the…

— Italo Calvino

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

— Arthur Koestler

“One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or…

— Herbert Hoover

“With his forces intact he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus, without losing a man, his triumph will be complete. This…

— Sun Tzu

“He advises them that tough lands produce tough peoples, so, if they wish to retain the empire he has enabled them so spectacularly to…

— Herodotus

“But the effects of the alleged discovery of the means to direct the more terrible force of vril were chiefly remarkable in their influence…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Ironically, their shocking success also awakened the very forces that eventually would marginalize them within the empire they had created.”

— Sven Beckert

“Alas! The work was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas.…

— Victor Hugo

“The collapsing of an empire. This changing word moves inexorably on. Thoughts bubble and the stiller the mind the more palpable the dazzling torrent…

— Stephen Batchelor

“The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.”

— Robert Harris

“agreement around principles, goals and identity among the conquered is almost always hostile to the victor and carry the seeds of future rebellion.”

— Don Pinnock