Quote by Victor Hugo

“vital political truth: military victory can be secured only by reconciliation with the defeated. Although most empire-builders in the ancient world”

— Anthony Everitt

To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G---…

— Victor Hugo

“Our task over the next few generations is to transform the world of independent states in which we live into some sort of genuine…

— Gwynne Dyer

“No serious writer would claim that the reign of Western civilization was unblemished. Yet there are those who would insist that there was nothing…

— Niall Ferguson

“Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined,…

— Anne Applebaum

“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

“But it must be realized that, when dealing with an utterly ruthless enemy who has clearly expressed his intention of wiping this nation out…

— W.E. Fairbairn

“An empire cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within.”

— Pierce Brown

“What happened? It took Gibbon six volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, so I shan’t embark on that. But…

— Kenneth Clark

“...great and sustained destruction requires great ambition. It must be conceived as the means toward achieving a new order, and although the idea behind…

— Philip Gourevitch

“After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.”

— Dan Simmons

“One day or another, it is true, dust, supposing it persists, will probably begin to gain the upper hand over domestics, invading the immense…

— Georges Bataille