Empires Quotes
Empires rise on conquest and ambition, then dissolve just as surely, leaving behind ruins, songs, and lessons for whoever comes next. This collection of empires quotes looks at what builds and breaks great powers, from Afghanistan's reputation as a graveyard of empires to the quieter decay of exhausted soil and spent ambition.
History keeps returning to the same lesson: empires won by force rarely last Always, no matter how vast their reach.
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A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
Afghanistan Quotes
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is 'Empires Made Of Sand.'
The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
