A Quote by Ralph Nader

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

Ralph Nader

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Ralph Nader
American - Lawyer
Born: February 27, 1934

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

Edward Gibbon

History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people - did good. They have always been devils; they always will be devils, and they are about to be destroyed. The final proof that they are devils lies in the fact that they are about to destroy themselves. Only a devil - and a stupid devil at that - would destroy himself!

Malcolm X

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct. It depends what "eventually" means. But the idea that were going to be around for the rest of global history...I don't think there's any scientist who would suggest that is true. It could be millions of years from now. We may leave descendants that are humanlike.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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.

Adam Curtis

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

Erin Morgenstern

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.

Lionel Shriver

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

Jonas Salk

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

Reinhold Niebuhr

What you fail to destroy will eventually destroy you.

Mike Murdock

People who had empires, unfortunately, want them back eventually, somehow, someway.

Robert Wyatt

History suggests that economic upheavals such as the Industrial and Information Revolutions eventually play themselves out and leave the entire world better off.

Max Boot

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

Otto von Bismarck

Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.

Desmond Tutu

I've been searching for a genre that would be most adequate to my vision of the world to convey how my ear hears and my eyes see life. I tried this and that, and finally, I chose a genre where human voices speak for themselves. But I don't just record a dry history of events and facts; I'm writing a history of human feelings.

Svetlana Alexievich

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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