A Quote by Noah Feldman
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
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History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated the earth. Inevitably, it would fall. Empires always did. But we were lucky, you said. We got to participate in the most fascinating social experiment ever attempted.
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
It became clear to me that our value as people is not in our stock portfolios and bank accounts but in the legacies we leave behind.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.
As well as our relationship with Afghanistan, I am researching the legacy of other European empires - in Africa. We think of those empires as history, but actually, they still haunt our everyday lives in the strangest of ways.
Maybe I wanted to have kids because you want to leave behind lessons, leave behind everything that matters to you. That's how you touch the world. But I have to reconsider what it's like to leave a legacy.
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.
We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.
What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.
People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.
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