#empire

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire. ↗

— Pat Robertson

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A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#diminished #easily #edges #empire #great

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. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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

— Martin Scorsese

#destruction #empires #fall #history #how

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. ↗

— John Shimkus

#armenia #armenians #because #borders #controlled

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. ↗

— Tacitus

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

— Kevin J. Anderson

#kevin-j-anderson #saga-of-seven-suns #science-fiction #science

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. ↗

— Joseph Barbera

#empire #fall #fast #last #like

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. ↗