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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
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.
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.
Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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.
We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.
The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root.
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.
Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.
We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)
History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.
But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
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.
Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
Fidel Castro represents the dignity of the South American continent against empires. He's a living legend: an icon of independence and freedom across the continent.
But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.
The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.
Empires always have the hubris to think they are indestructible, when in fact they are always unsustainable.
Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
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.
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.
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.
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.
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.
The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.
Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey.
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.
Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.
It's always been the case that you have the really rich, and the really poor. But hey, look, all the great empires have their periods where they rule the world, and then they crumble.
Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Belt. Interstellar epics. Galactic empires. Trips to the remote past or future.
What is today a matter of academic speculation begins tomorrow to move armies and pull down empires.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
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 want [cities] only to trade with the empire, which doesn't help them at all. It's just a way of exploiting them.
The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with the great empires.
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.
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'
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.
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.
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself
I've always studied our empires to empower myself, you know, and to have ammunition against anybody who could try to put me down.
The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.
