A Quote by Edward Rutherfurd

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

Edward Rutherfurd

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Arrogant Become Empires Nature

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Edward Rutherfurd
British - Writer
Born: 1948

Empires are doomed. They become more diffuse, more broke, demagogues rule, and so I was just pointing out some similarities between past empires and what's going on right now. They all have had to apply more and more harsh rhetoric of superiority and divine right to justify the building of hegemony.

Dar Williams

I don't think I've become arrogant. I'm pretty much the same person. I think the world has changed. I think I'm pretty consistent. Because you stick to what you believe does not make you arrogant.

Raymond Kelly

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Henry Ward Beecher

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

Mitch Kapor

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

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Frank Herbert

Am I arrogant? I've been arrogant, sure; everybody's been arrogant.

Kevin Spacey

Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction.

Prince Charles

Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.

Louis Theroux

Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

James G. Stavridis

I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.

Colin Quinn

People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.

Russell Crowe

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

Deb Caletti

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

Doris Lessing

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

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