#empires

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#affections #answer #armies #birth #death

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

— John Boyd Orr

#conquest #defeat #either #empires #fallen

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

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#almost #bankruptcy #brought #check #consumes

Well, normally I’m against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big.” — Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year) ↗

— Pete Seeger

#music #music

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature. ↗

— Edward Rutherfurd

#politics-observation #nature

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

— Marcus Aurelius

#changing #empires #fell #foresee #future

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. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#car #continue #control #countries #destruction

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away. ↗

— William Watson

#disappear #dissolve #empires #passes #song

The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar. ↗

— Tom Winnifrith

#believe #bet #better #britain #change