Top 1200 Great Empires Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.

My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break apart. Businesses grow, then fold. There are no exceptions. I'm OK with all that. Yet it pains me to bear witness to the sixth great extinction, where we humans are directly responsible for the extirpation of so many wonderful creatures and invaluable indigenous cultures. It saddens me to observe the plight of our own species; we appear to be incapable of solving our problems.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.

Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. Some will say that this hope lies in a nation; others in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished, by millions of solitary individuals whose and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.

I think the condition of imperial denial is a handicap because if you do not recognize that you are essentially performing the functions of an empire, you are incapable of learning from the mistakes of past empires.

I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.

Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.

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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

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

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age in Europe in the 15th century. On land their potency in reducing castle walls favoured central over local power, since in general only monarchs could afford siege-trains; so nation-states were consolidated and extended into great territorial empires. At sea, guns transformed sailing ships into mobile castles virtually impregnable to opponents who lacked equally powerful ordnance. With the ocean-going gunned warship, western Europe began to extend around the globe.

History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

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

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.

Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

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

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.

My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'

North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

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.

Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

There have been so many empires, kings are kinda going out of style.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."

You know, 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.